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third-person singular simple present despends, present participle despending, simple past and past participle despended
(obsolete) To spend; to squander. quotations
Some noble men in Spain can despend 50000 l. ſome Forty, ſfome Thirty, and divers twenty thouſand Pounds per annum.
1655, James Howell, “to the Lord Viscount Colcheſter”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […]