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a-spendan

  • verb [ weak ]
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a-spendan, p. de; pp. ed [a, spendan to spend]
To spend entirely, consume, squander, to spend, expend, lay out, bestow, distribute; consumere, dissipare, expendere, sumptum facere, erogare, impertiri
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  • Ðonne hys gestreón beóþ ðus eall aspended

    when his property is thus all entirely spent,

    • Ors. 1, 1 ; Bos. 22, 43
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  • Ic aspende yfele

    distraho,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 47 ; Som. 48, 52
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  • Ic aspende [asende MS.] oððe gife

    impertior,

    • 37; Som. 39, 13
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  • Aspendan þearfum

    to spend on the poor;

    erogare pauperibus,

    • R. Ben. interl. 58
    • :
    • Scint. 1
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