dispend
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of dispend
1250–1300; Middle English dispenden < Anglo-French, Old French despendre < Latin dispendere to weigh out; see dispense
Example Sentences
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And this also is a cause wherefore there be many in England able to dispend a knight's living, which never come unto that countenance, and by their own consents.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed
And this also is a cause wherefore there be many in England able to dispend a knight’s living, which never come unto that countenance, and by their own consents.
From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison
But feed on scraps and chitlings bought Beside St. Marcel's, and dispend Their gains for wassail, then, straight wend Once more to work, not grumblingly.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Oh, yes, yes; Had women navigable rivers in their eyes, They would dispend them all.
From The White Devil by John Webster
This, sir? a poor elder brother of mine, sir, a yeoman, may dispend some seven or eight hundred a year; that's his son, my nephew, there.
From Every Man out of His Humour by Ben Jonson
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