dispend

English

Etymology

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

Verb

dispend (third-person singular simple present dispends, present participle dispending, simple past and past participle dispended or dispent)

1. (obsolete) To spend or expend.
   • 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:

     Those Roman knights were so called, if they could dispend per annum so much.

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