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; see dispense

Example Sentences

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 Jonson, Ben

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 Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

Oh, yes, yes;   Had women navigable rivers in their eyes,   They would dispend them all.

From The White Devil by Webster, John

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

But, God working with thee, thou shalt lay hold on such spiritual abundance that, if thou keep it in safety and ever rightfully desire more, thou shalt never wish to dispend any part of it.

From Barlaam and Ioasaph by John of Damascus, Saint