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dispend en · VERB

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (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:
2. (obsolete) To waste or squander.
3. (obsolete) To distribute or dispense.

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