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单词 expend
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expendv.

Brit. /ᵻkˈspɛnd/, /ɛkˈspɛnd/, U.S. /ɪkˈspɛnd/, /ɛkˈspɛnd/
Forms: Middle English–1500s expende, exspende, 1500s– expend. past participle Middle English expent, 1500s expend.
Etymology: < Latin expendĕre, < ex- out + pendĕre to weigh, pay. Compare also dispend v., spend v.1
I. To pay out, spend. The verb differs from spend in being less colloquial, and (in modern use) in implying some determinate direction or object of outlay.
1. transitive. To pay away, lay out, spend (money).
a. To spend, make away with, consume in outlay. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > spend [verb (transitive)]
aspendc885
doOE
spendc1175
spenec1175
dispendc1330
bewarec1374
bestow1377
suckc1380
unpursea1393
warea1417
stowc1440
to lay outc1449
spone1456
expend1477
expend1484
impendc1486
ware?a1513
deburse?1529
disburse1530
defray1543
unburse1570
outlay1573
to lay forth1584
sweat1592
vent1612
dispursea1616
exhaust1616
to set forth1622
waste1639
depursea1648
fence1699
douse1759
shut1797
shift1923
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 53v By expending more than his lyuelode cometh to.
1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton A vij Zeno expended bothe hys goodes and the goodes of his fader and played hit at the dyse.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xii. 26 Riches; Carelesse Heyres, may..expend.
a1627 J. Hayward Life & Raigne Edward Sixt (1630) 111 The King of England wasted the French Kings country, and thereby caused him to expend such summes of mony as exceeded the debt.
b. To lay out (money) for determinate objects. Const. in, upon.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > spend [verb (transitive)]
aspendc885
doOE
spendc1175
spenec1175
dispendc1330
bewarec1374
bestow1377
suckc1380
unpursea1393
warea1417
stowc1440
to lay outc1449
spone1456
expend1477
expend1484
impendc1486
ware?a1513
deburse?1529
disburse1530
defray1543
unburse1570
outlay1573
to lay forth1584
sweat1592
vent1612
dispursea1616
exhaust1616
to set forth1622
waste1639
depursea1648
fence1699
douse1759
shut1797
shift1923
1484–6 Churchwardens' Accts. Wigtoft, Lincs. in J. Nichols Illustr. Antient Times Eng. (1797) 79 For hiryng of 2 wrightes to mend ye belles, att Palmer's house expent, 4d.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Expend or laye out money.
1698 Mem. E. Ludlow I. 71 Part of this sum I expended upon the garison.
1763 Ld. Barrington in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 474 If £50,000 had been given for that Speech, it would have been well expended.
1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. 323 They began to doubt whether they were not about to expend their resources less for their own defence, than, etc.
1862 Mrs. H. Wood Life's Secret xvii. 117/2 Too fond of beer, to expend in much else the trifle allowed them.
absolute.1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes II. §54 The eare and the eye are the minds receiuers; but the tongue is onely busied in expending.1720 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 64 To expend and lay out very extravagantly in repairing the highways, &c.1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 352 They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend.
2. transferred and figurative. To lay out, spend (blood, care, labour, time, etc.); to employ for a given purpose.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > use or make use of [verb (transitive)] > use for specific purpose > specifically an immaterial thing
beteec1175
spenec1200
beseta1240
dispenda1400
spenda1400
expendc1440
incline?a1475
expone1527
adhibit?1538
depend1607
dispense?1624
lend1697
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xv. 53 The first doughter..is þe worlde, whom a man loveth so well, that he expendith alle his lif aboute hit.
?1548 J. Bale Image Bothe Churches (new ed.) i. sig. Svi More God desyreth not of the Christen minister, than to expende hys whole studye, laboure, and tyme for the lightenyng of other.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 23 To expend your time with vs a while. View more context for this quotation
1728 E. Young Love of Fame ii, in Wks. (1757) I. 97 These all their care expend on outward show For wealth and fame.
1841 R. W. Emerson Prudence in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 236 As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire.
1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. vii. 142 The blood that must be expended in the attempt.
1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 42 Thyself hast thou expended As every poet should.
1874 L. Morris To Unknown Poet ix A humble healer thro' a life obscure, Thou didst expend thy homely days.
3.
a. To use up (material or force) in any operation; also reflexive. Formerly, †to consume (provisions); cf. expense n. 1c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > use up, expend, or consume [verb (transitive)]
spend1297
usea1382
costa1400
consumea1527
to make a hole (in anything)1591
absorb1686
to use up1712
expend1745
to use off1812
to get through ——1833
to go through ——1949
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 9 To procure what fresh Provisions we could expend during our Stay.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 80 The quantity of water expended in a minute was 96⅔ pounds.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany xii. 193 The English archers..having expended their arrows, drew their swords.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xix. 329 Gravity in this case has expended a certain amount of force.
1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius iii. 51 After the currents had expended themselves.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 14 All the social feeling and intellectual effort..seemed to have expended themselves.
b. Nautical. To lose (spars, masts, etc.) either in action or by storms, etc. Also, to use up (a quantity of rope, etc.) in winding it round a spar or a rope.
ΚΠ
1801 Ld. Nelson 23 May in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) IV. 384 An account..of the spars expended in consequence of the Action of April 2nd.
1830 F. Marryat King's Own III. i. 12 Have you expended any boat's masts?
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 34 Expend the spunyarn round both parts of the lanyard.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 137 The heel rope is..expended round the jackstay and boom.
II. To consider.
4. To weigh mentally; to consider, determine accurately. Often, to expend with oneself [after Latin expendere secum] . Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > consider, deliberate [verb (transitive)]
i-thenchec897
showeOE
i-mune971
thinkOE
overthinkOE
takec1175
umbethinkc1175
waltc1200
bethinkc1220
wend?c1225
weighc1380
delivera1382
peisea1382
considerc1385
musec1390
to look over ——a1393
advise?c1400
debatec1400
roll?c1400
revert?a1425
advertc1425
deliberc1425
movec1425
musec1425
revolvec1425
contemplec1429
overseec1440
to think overc1440
perpend1447
roil1447
pondera1450
to eat inc1450
involvec1470
ponderate?a1475
reputec1475
counterpoise1477
poisea1483
traversec1487
umbecast1487
digest1488
undercast1489
overhalec1500
rumble1519
volve?1520
compassa1522
recount1526
trutinate1528
cast1530
expend1531
ruminate1533
concoct1534
contemplate1538
deliberate1540
revolute1553
chawa1558
to turn over1568
cud1569
cogitate1570
huik1570
chew1579
meditatec1580
discourse1581
speculate1599
theorize1599
scance1603
verse1614
pensitate1623
agitate1629
spell1633
view1637
study1659
designa1676
introspect1683
troll1685
balance1692
to figure on or upon1837
reflect1862
mull1873
to mull over1874
scour1882
mill1905
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. ix. sig. bivv Where fortitude expendeth euery thinge and acte diligently.
1533 W. Tyndale Supper of Lord in Wks. (Parker Soc.) III. 266 Exhort every man deeply to consider and expend with himself, the signification of this sacrament.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Rogat. Week iii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 491 To expend the gracious good will of God to usward.
1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. ii. 21 It behooueth the Physitian to..expend with himselfe..the strength of euery accident apart.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) To Rdr. Moral Evidences..are herein particularly expended and examined.

Derivatives

exˈpended adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [adjective] > expended
collocate1529
expended1743
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 13 What can awake thee, unawak'd by this, ‘Expended Deity on human Weal’.
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