dispend

American  

[dih-spend] / dɪˈspɛnd /

verb (used with object)

Obsolete.

1. to pay out; expend; spend.

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dispend British  

/ dɪˈspɛnd /

verb

1. obsolete (tr) to spend

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Etymology

Origin of dispend

1250–1300; Middle English dispenden < Anglo-French, Old French despendre < Latin dispendere to weigh out; see dispense

Example Sentences

This emperor may dispend as much as he will without estimation; for he not dispendeth ne maketh no money but of leather imprinted or of paper. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

And this also is a cause wherefore there be many in England able to dispend a knight’s living, which never come unto that countenance, and by their own consents.

From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by Harrison, William

And this also is a cause wherefore there be many in England able to dispend a knight's living, which never come unto that countenance, and by their own consents.

From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed

Oh, yes, yes;   Had women navigable rivers in their eyes,   They would dispend them all.

From The White Devil by Webster, John

But feed on scraps and chitlings bought Beside St. Marcel's, and dispend Their gains for wassail, then, straight wend Once more to work, not grumblingly.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)