† superˈspend, v. Sc. Obs.
Variant of superexpend.
| 1508 Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 397 That super spendit euill spreit, spvlȝeit of all vertu. 15.. ― Poems xiii. 23 Sum super expendit [v.r. superspendit] gois to his bed. 1558 Extr. Rec. Burgh Peebles (1872) 251 To be ansuerit of..the rest of the taxt that he is superspendit. 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 94 The Knicht..wox sa wonder pure in hand And alwayis superspendit. 1632 Lithgow Trav. x. 450 When their owne Irish Rent masters haue any voyage for Dublin, or peraduenture superspended at home in feasting of strangers. |