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dispended

dispended is the simple past and past participle of dispend.

Meaning of dispend

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

Questions about dispended

What is dispended the simple past and past participle of?
Dispended is the simple past and past participle of dispend.

Words near dispended in the dictionary

  1. dispence
  2. dispenced
  3. dispences
  4. dispencing
  5. dispend
  6. dispended
  7. dispender
  8. dispenders
  9. dispending
  10. dispendious
  11. dispends

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