defray
verb (used with object)
to bear or pay all or part of (the costs, expenses, etc.).
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But after making all allowance for these causes, the expenses for dwellings, clothing, furniture, and partly for food not provided by the syssitia, still remain undefrayed.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller