erogate

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  1. To expend, as public money; lay out; bestow. For to the acquirynge of science belongeth understandyng and memorye, which, as a treasory, hath power to retayne, and also to erogate, and dystribute, when opportunitie happeneth. Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, iii. 22.

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  1. from Latin erogatus, past participle of erogare (later Italian erogare = Spanish Portuguese erogar), pay, pay out, expend (properly out of the public treasury, after asking the consent of the people), from e, out, + rogare, ask: see rogation. Cf. arrogate, derogate.
 

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