† misspenev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To misspend, misemploy.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > mis-spend
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c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) 13483 Ȝef ich his god mis-spene [c1275 Calig. for-leose].
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xi. 174 And muche wo worth hym þat Inwitt mys-speyneþ [v.rr. myspeneþ, mys-spendeþ].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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