† disbursen.

Etymology: < disburse v.: compare Old French desbours (16th cent. in Littré).

Obsolete.

= disbursement n. to be in disburse, to be out of pocket.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun]

spendingc1000

spening1297

dispensec1320

costc1325

dispendingc1340

dispensationa1387

expense1393

depance1450

waringc1480

spensea1538

bestowing?1542

expending1545

defrayment1547

dispensing1548

disbursing1564

disbursal1589

debursing1598

disbursementa1599

disburse1608

depursement1636

debursement1650

dispension1658

spenda1688

disbursage1721

finances1730

expenditure1769

outlay1798

dispenditure1857

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > financial loss > suffer financial loss [verb (intransitive)]

to be out of one's way1596

to be in disburse1608

to be out of purse1615

bleed1671

to lie out of one's money1860

drop1876

1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight v. sig. I4^v Come there is Some odd disburse, some bribe, some gratulance, Which make you lock vp leasure.

1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 186 Lest on the one hand he be in disburse, on the other, in cash for his Principal.

1716 S. Sewall Diary 8 Feb. (1973) II. 811 [He] offers to be his Quota towards this Disburse.

1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) I. 288 The annual Rent..would abundantly pay the Publick for the first Disburses.

1782 J. Elphinston tr. Martial Epigrams ii. lxiii. 117 Of wealth in love luxuriant the disburse!

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

disbursev.

Brit.

/dɪsˈbəːs/, U.S.

/dɪsˈbərs/

Forms: Also 1500s -bourse, -bource, -bursse.

Etymology: originally disbourse , < Old French desbourser (13th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), modern French débourser , in same senses, < des- , dis- prefix 1d + bourse purse. Afterwards assimilated to Latin bursa , as if representing a Latin *disbursāre . Compare deburse v., dispurse v.

a. transitive. To pay out or expend (money); to pay or defray (costs, expenses).

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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

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 517/2 I have disboursed for hym above a hundred pounde.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. i. 38 Take the Chaine, and bid my wife Disburse the summe, on the receit thereof.

a1626 J. Horsey Relacion Trav. in E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. (1856) 220 I disburst to him and them 300 dollers.

1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 70 Importation do bring in more profit, then Exportation disburseth.

1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman Introd. 3 Who Fifty Millions Sterling have disburs'd.

1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 16/2 Whatever contingent expenses you may find it necessary to disburse in Calcutta.

a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 251 They had disbursed money largely, and had disbursed it with the certainty that they should never be re-imbursed unless the outlay proved beneficial to the public.

†b. To defray (a charge). Obsolete.

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society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > bear or defray the cost of

quitc1275

maintaina1425

pay1446

fray1450

abye1503

price?a1513

be1520

to stand to ——1540

disburse1548

defray1581

discharge1587

reimburse1591

discount1647

to be at the charge(s of1655

to pay off1711

stand1808

pop1947

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xxxi To disbource and pay al the costes and charges.

1594 H. Plat Jewell House 30 Disbursing the charge both of the Beere, and the ingredients.

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Ff2 Rupertus Duke of Alemanny disbursed the greatest charge thereof.

c. To pay for or on account of (anything). rare.

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1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 73 Commission on cash advanced to disburse the ship, 5 per cent.

d. absol. To make disbursement. Also figurative.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > spend or incur expense [verb (intransitive)]

spenec1175

spend1297

to do or make (the) cost(s)c1325

costc1384

to be at charge or at charges?1542

to be at cost?1548

to spend and be spent1611

disburse1615

to lug out1684

tap1712

part1864

1615 J. Stephens Satyrical Ess. 12 Each alike constraines The hunger-bitten Client to disburse.

1636 W. Davenant Witts iv. sig. H3 Sir..you must disburse! For Gold is a restorative.

1789 Loiterer 21 Mar. 6 Any intention to defraud, or any inability to disburse.

1920 E. Pound Umbra 111 Disburse Can she, and wake Such firm delights.

†2. figurative and transferred. To spend, give out or away.

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the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > give out or issue

administera1425

utter1529

erogate1531

disburse1594

vent1616

porrect1746

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. I1^v And all my Fame that liues disbursed be, To those that liue and thinke no shame of me.

1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia ii. 64 In a whispering language, he disburs'd His various thoughts.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xix. 126 He had rather disburse his life at the present.

1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. i. 27 The said Sap being disbursed back into all the Seminal Root.

Derivatives

disˈbursed adj.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desboursé, disbursed, laid out of a purse.

disˈbursing n. and adj.

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