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espendre (s.xiv1)
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espendre (s.xiv1)

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espender;  expandre,  expender,  expendre,  exspendre  
  FEW:  expendere 3,308a Gdf:  espendre 2 3,520b GdfC: ∅ TL: esependre 3,1176 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  espendre  TLF: ∅ OED:  spend v. 1  MED:  spenden v.   DMLBS:  expendere 856b

v.trans.

1finan.to spend: 
( c.1350; MS: c.1350 )  (The head of the religious house) deyt estre avysé de garder et d’espendre lours (=the inmates’) biens en non eus  A-N Rules 95
( 1379-80 )  n’autrement expenduz qe dessuis n’est dit  Rot Parl1 iii 75
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  laqelle femme [...] poet ore bien expendre par an quarrant marcz  Lett & Pet 118.68.9
( 1405; MS: s.xv1 )  coment j’ay expendu qanque j’avoye et pluis appromptee entour la continuance du dit treslonge pursuyte  Lett & Pet 365.27
2to use, employ: 
( MS: c.1415-20 )  nous forces nous purrons expandre  SAMPS2 (T) 169r
( 1481 )  il n’est reason que le tenaunt paiera pur lez espenses spend (l. spendés) ou espendé en surplusage  Readings 154.39
♦(of time) to spend, use up: 
( MS: s.xiv1 )  Ore te prie par ta merci Otriez moy d’espender ici Iceo jour ke est a venir  MLR 13 318.176
espendre sur
finan. to spend on: 
( 1376-77 )  quanqe fust par eux resceuz des ditz subsides serroit entierment expenduz sur mesmes les guerres  Rot Parl1 ii 364

p.p. as a.

lawused up, expended: 
( 1489 )  [...] aprés l’issue expendu que le donour ou son heire enheritera en lour revertir  Readings i 174.22

See also:

despendre1 
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