Definitions for dispend

dispend dis·pend

Spelling: [dih-spend]
IPA: /dɪˈspɛnd/

Dispend is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in dispend (ddeinps).

Definitions for dispend

verb (used with object)

  1. to pay out; expend; spend.

Origin of dispend

1250-1300; Middle English dispenden Anglo-French, Old French despendre Latin dispendere to weigh out; see dispense

Examples for dispend

And he that might dispend fiftie pounds, should furnish two men at arms.

Well, there was such a doctor who may dispend a hundred pounds.

Hempstead, Essex, for discharging the Tax of the poor who may not have to dispend yearly above 40s.

And he that might dispend fiue and twentie pounds, should furnish himselfe or find a man at armes.

He also tooke order that euerie man that might dispend yéerlie fiftéene pounds in lands should be made knight.

Morouer that none should weare any rich clothes or furres, except they might dispend an hundred pounds by yeare.

Word Value for dispend
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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