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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dispend.

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Examples

  • I don´t think that Ott - by stressing that the duty of interior assent could be dispended/end - he excludes the exterior dissent.

    Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks 2009

  • No doubt, her loss being as great as it could be, upon the account of one subject to the law of mortality, as many grains of grief and sorrow are to be allowed her in the balance of the sanctuary as God doth permit to be laid out and dispended about any of the sons of men.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • And then said Decius to Laurence: Or thou shalt make sacrifice to the gods, or this night shall all these torments be dispended on thee.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

  • There was a knight which was mighty and rich, that dispended follily his goods, and came to so great a poverty that he which had been accustomed to give largely great things, had need to demand and ask the small.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

  • And the blessed Laurence ran after him and said: Forsake me not, holy father, for I have dispended the treasures that thou deliveredst to me.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

  • And they accused them, and complained that they had dispended all their riches.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

  • And this Theophilus dispended all wisely the goods of the church under the bishop; and when the bishop was dead, all the people said that this vicar should be bishop.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

  • For Philip had left them to be dispended to the church, and after, Philip fled and hid him for fear of Decius.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

  • And in these good offices and works he dispended his father's goods.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

  • Laurence cried after him saying: Father, leave me not, for I have dispended all thy treasures, and then the knights heard speak of the treasures, and held Laurence, and then they beheaded Sixtus, Felicissimus and Agapitus, and so they three suffered death together.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

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