dispend

verb — 3 senses

verb

Etymology From Old French despendre ( > French dépendre), from Latin dispendere.

Obsolete To spend or expend.

Those Roman knights were so called, if they could dispend per annum so much.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:

Obsolete To waste or squander.

Obsolete To distribute or dispense.

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