Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To expend, as public money; lay out; bestow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To lay out, as money; to deal out; to expend.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To lay out (money etc.); to deal out; to expend.
Etymologies
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Latin erogatus, past participle of erogare; e out + rogare to ask.
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