dispend

American  

[dih-spend] / dɪˈspɛnd /

verb (used with object)

Obsolete.

1. to pay out; expend; spend.

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dispend British  

/ dɪˈspɛnd /

verb

1. obsolete (tr) to spend

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Etymology

Origin of dispend

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

Example Sentences

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 Project Gutenberg

Only dukes, marquises, earls and their children, barons, and knights of the order could wear imported wool, velvet, crimson, scarlet, or blue, or certain furs., except that barons' sons, knights, or men who could dispend at least 200 pounds yearly could wear velvet in gowns or coats, embroidery, and furs of leopards.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

Moreouer, euerie man and woman that might dispend in lands the value of twentie shillings & so vpward, aboue the reprises, whether the same lands belonged to the laie fee, or to the church, paied for euerie pound twelue pence: and those that were valued to be woorth in goods twentie pounds and vpwards, paid also after Abr.

From Project Gutenberg

Several of my friends pretend to demonstrate, that this bank will in time vie with the South Sea Company: They insist, that the army dispend as many oaths yearly as will produce one hundred thousand pounds net.

From Project Gutenberg