dispend

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dispend

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

verb dispends · dispending · dispended · dispent

  1. obsolete To spend or expend. 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.

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