despend
To spend; to squander.
Verb
- To spend; to squander.
- 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...