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Definition of Dispending
1. dispend [v] - See also: dispend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispending
Literary usage of Dispending
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voiage and Travayle of Sir John Maundeville Knight: Which Treateth of by Sir John Mandeville (1887)
"... of tlie Emperour and of his dispending. THIS Emperour is a great lorde, for
he may dis- pend what he will without nombre, bicause he spendeth nother ..."
2. Fox's Book of Martyrs: The Acts and Monuments of the Church by John Foxe, John Cumming (1844)
"And if God is payed of that dispending, this is the principal! lord of those ...
Lord is well payed of my brothers doing, and the dispending of his goods, ..."
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)
"... so as to make up with 38s. applied in some other way a dispending of ...
it is no less a dispending of 40s. to apply the 38s. for his general purposes, ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas: On by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Alfred James Peter Lutwyche (1854)
"... 2s. within the meaning of the statute, so as to make up with 38s. applied in
some other way a dispending of 40s.; it is no less a ..."
5. The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: With a Life of the Martyrologist, and by John Foxe, George Townsend (1843)
"... him for his true doing: And if God is a payed of that dispending that is ...
And here, is I am hold to be sorie of his euill dispending, ne I may not ..."
6. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1848)
"... OLIVER, then Lord Protector, dispending pounds at his funeral ; extending to
his the grant of some of the lands of the primacy of Armagh for 21 years. ..."
7. The Bruce: Or, The Book of the Most Excellent and Noble Prince, Robert de by John Barbour, John Lydgate (1894)
"... and all the lafe That war thair-in, bath man and knaf, He tuk, and gaf thame
dispending, 486. on] El I am. 488. of} so in H ; E out. ..."
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