dispend

[ dih-spend ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, Obsolete.

dispend

/ dɪˈspɛnd /

Origin of dispend¹

1250–1300; Middle English dispenden < Anglo-French, Old French despendre < Latin dispendere to weigh out; dispense

Origin of dispend¹

C14: from Old French despendre, from Latin dispendere to distribute; see dispense

And he that might dispend fiftie pounds, should furnish two men at arms.

And he that might dispend fiue and twentie pounds, should furnish himselfe or find a man at armes.

Morouer that none should weare any rich clothes or furres, except they might dispend an hundred pounds by yeare.

He also tooke order that euerie man that might dispend yéerlie fiftéene pounds in lands should be made knight.

Hempstead, Essex, for discharging the Tax of the poor who may not have to dispend yearly above 40s.

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