† ˌsuperexˈpend, v. Sc. Obs.
Also 6 -exspend.
[super- 9 b. In med.L. superexpendĕre was applied to supererogatory fasting.]
1. to be superexpended: to have spent beyond one's income or means; to be out of pocket or in arrears: often with advb. acc. or phr. expressing the amount.
| 1473 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 75 And sua is the Comptare superexpendit j{supm} j{supc} lxxix li. iiij s. x d. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xiii. 23 Sum super expendit gois to his bed. 1559 Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 325 Quhat he beis super expendit, the same to be allowit to him. 1591 Exch. Rolls Scotl. XXII. 162 The comptar is superexpendit de claro in the sowme of aucht thousand ane hundreth fourtene pundis sevin schillingis fyve pennyis. 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. lxxxv. 219 We shall be..so far from being superexpended..that angels cannot lay our counts nor sum our advantage and incomes. 1676 Row Contn. Blair's Autobiogr. xii. (1848) 453 They were not provided with horses..being superexpended by attending Parliament so long. 1686 Burnet Trav. i. 24 The Bailifs..pretend they are so far super-expended, that they discount a great deal of the publick revenue, of which they are the receivers, for their reimbursement. |
2. trans. To spend (time) wastefully. rare.
| 1513 Douglas æneis Direct. 31 Quhar that I haue my tyme superexpendit, Mea culpa, God grant I may amend it. |