dispender
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle English dispendour, from Old French despendour. By surface analysis, dispend (“distribute, dispense”) + -er. Doublet of dispenser and spencer.
Noun
[edit]dispender (plural dispenders)
- (Early Modern, obsolete) A steward or treasurer.
- 1601, Francis Godwin, The Succession of the Bishops of England […][1], published 1625, page 561:
- He was so greatly beloued of al sorts of people for his gentlenes, affability & liberality, as many men liuing, but more at their death (especially Cleargy men) would put their goods & children into his hands; the one assuring themselues of a faithfull keeper, the other of a discréete and conscionable dispender.
Further reading
[edit]- “dispender”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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