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‖ 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.
1648Petit. Eastern Ass. 18 Is not Belt-money the dispendium of our possessions? a1661Fuller Worthies i. (1662) 356 This Gentleman in his Title page ingeniously wisheth that his Compendium might not prove a Dispendium to the Reader thereof. 1699J. 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. 1727S. Switzer Pract. Gardiner i. v. 42 The dispendium or expense of water was the less by 1/6. |