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
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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 Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison
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 Saint John of Damascus
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
Oh, yes, yes; Had women navigable rivers in their eyes, They would dispend them all.
From The White Devil by John Webster
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
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