Definition of Dispends

1. Verb. (third-person singular of dispend) ¹

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Definition of Dispends

1. dispend [v] - See also: dispend

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispends

dispell'd
dispellable
dispelled
dispeller
dispellers
dispelling
dispels
dispence
dispenced
dispences
dispend
dispended
dispender
dispenders
dispending
dispends (current term)
dispensability
dispensable
dispensableness
dispensaries
dispensary
dispensation
dispensational
dispensationalism
dispensationalist
dispensationalists
dispensations
dispensative
dispensatively
dispensatories

Literary usage of Dispends

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Reports in Law and Equity: Containing Reports of Cases in the House by Edmund Hatch Bennett, Chauncey Smith, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain Courts (1855)
"If the landlord occupied the freehold himself, the Is. is part of what he dispends. But in this case the landlord does not get 40s., he only gets 39s.; ..."

2. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1905)
"XLIX From Taurus when Sol's influence descends, And Earth with verdant robe befriends, And richer showers, than fell on Danae's lap, dispends ; L When early ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas: On by Alfred James Peter Lutwyche, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas (1854)
"He dispends 2s. for the benefits which the rates purchase, and 385. in some other way, and so he enjoys 40s. A vote is conferred by value, ..."

4. The Revised Reports by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1908)
"... which the landlord agrees to pay,—does he not pay that out of his yearly income of 40s. ? He dispends a portion of it in paying the rate. ..."

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