单词 | dispendium |
释义 | dispendiumn. Obsolete. Loss, waste; expenditure, expense. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [noun] spendinga1430 use1440 consumptionc1522 abuse1539 spensec1547 abusinga1555 waste1569 expense1593 dispendium1648 expenditure1812 using-up1863 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [noun] > wrong expenditure (of time, money, etc.) misspendingc1390 misdispense1450 misspense1591 misexpense1605 misexpendinga1644 dispendium1648 misexpenditure1795 1648 N. Ward To Parl. at Westm. 18 Is not Belt-money the dispendium of our possessions? a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Glouc. 356 This Gentleman in his Title page ingeniously wisheth that his Compendium might not prove Dispendium to the Reader thereof. 1699 J. Woodward in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 207 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. Kitchen Gardiner i. v. 42 The dispendium or expense of water was the less by 1/ 6. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1648 |
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