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Definition of Misspends
1. misspend [v] - See also: misspend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misspends
Literary usage of Misspends
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland by Scotland Privy Council (1905)
"... factory void and null, and appropriating the gentleman's estate, misspends
und wastes it. Charge is therefore given to summon the persons above ..."
2. The Parliamentary Debates: Official Report by Northern Ireland Parliament. House of Commons (1898)
"What is wanted is to make the proviso read in some such way as this : " Provided
that if, in the opinion of the convicting Court, any pensioner misspends, ..."
3. The Penal code of California: Enacted in 1872; as Amended in 1889 by California, Robert Desty (1889)
"In Massachusetts, 1C Is sufficient If he habitually misspends his time—5 Allen,
611; lut Mass. 17. Statutes concerning vagrants are constitutional—1 ..."
4. The Penal Code of California: Enacted in 1872 : as Amended in 1883 by California, Robert Desty (1881)
"378; so.ifa person habitually misspends his tinie.it is sufficient—5 Allen, 519;
108 Mass. 17. At common law, all idle persons and vagrants may be taken up ..."
5. The General Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Enacted December by Massachusetts, William Adams Richardson, George P. Sanger, Andrew Augustus Richmond (1873)
"Debtor not entitled to oath if be misspends his property, &c. ... If any person,
arrested on execution, after such arrest misspends or misuses his goods, ..."
6. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1812)
"... the first part of the command as of no great consequence, and level all their
admonitions to an observance of the seventh day, yet whoever misspends ..."
7. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... turns short on the sudden into some similitude, which diverts, say they, your
attention from the main subject, and misspends it on some trivial image. ..."
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