‖ diˈspendium Obs.
[L. = cost, expense; also, loss, damage; f. dispendĕre to dispend: a parallel form to compendium. Cf. It. dispendio expense.]
Loss, waste; expenditure, expense.
| 1648 Petit. Eastern Ass. 18 Is not Belt-money the dispendium of our possessions? a 1661 Fuller Worthies i. (1662) 356 This Gentleman in his Title page ingeniously wisheth that his Compendium might not prove a Dispendium to the Reader thereof. 1699 J. Woodward in Phil. Trans. XXI. 207 The less they [Plants] are in Bulk, the smaller the Quantity of the Fluid Mass in which they are set is drawn off; the Dispendium of it..being pretty nearly proportioned to the Bulk of the Plant. 1727 S. Switzer Pract. Gardiner i. v. 42 The dispendium or expense of water was the less by 1/6. |