1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 275 It is a mere outspend of savageness, to no end.

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 266 If þe sooner spending out and wering out of þo meenys schal be brouȝt forþ and getun more of þe seid eende, or in better maner or sooner þan schulde so be bi more cherisching and fauoring þe same said meenys fro her sooner out spending and sooner out wering, þerynne falliþ noon indiscrecioun, [etc.].]

a1450 St. George 22 in M. Görlach E. Midland Revision S.-Eng. Legendary (1976) 33 (MED) So lang þai fede hym with þe schepe þat..þer bestes & þer schepe wer nerhand owt spend.

1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. v. sig. I Spight hath outspent it selfe.

1613 L. Bayly Practise of Pietie (ed. 3) 910 One houre well spent, when a mans life is almost out-spend: may gaine a man the assurance of eternal life.

1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia ii. 51 Others..ere their life-bloud was out-spent, Into the flames their bodies cast.

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole lxix. 314 They flower not vntill the heate of the yeare, which is in Iuly..and continue flowring, vntill the colds of the Autumne checke them, or vntill they haue wholly out spent themselues.

1704 C. Povey Holy Thoughts on God made Man 284 He soon outspent his Spirits, and dy'd.

1827 R. Emmons Fredoniad I. x. 314 Now has the storm-charg'd north outspent its power.

1855 Hogg's Instructor July–Dec. 142/2 Only lingering till the first storm of weeping was outspent, she left her, and went down the path.

1586 G. Whetstone Eng. Myrror 152 His ryot in the end outspended both his fortune and credit.

1667 S. Pepys Diary 20 Feb. (1974) VIII. 75 He doth confess our straits here and everywhere else arises from our out-spending our revenue.

1811 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 345 We out-spend our means.

1895 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 828/1 She divined that otherwise he would outspend his fortune.

1987 Nature 12 Feb. 561/1 Most British universities are outspending their incomes.

2000 D. Teachman Student Compan. Jane Austen viii. 140 His family's status is not so low that he cannot ever expect to be an eligible mate for Anne Elliot, the daughter of a baronet who outspends his income.

1655 J. Berkenhead To Mr. H. Lawes in H. Lawes Second Bk. Ayres 3 So vast is that Exchequer of thy Brain, Out spends all others, yet does most retain.

1660 R. Howards Blind Lady v. i. 116 They that joyn Stocks, with ease out-spends Him that runs on unpaid and lends.

a1802 T. Dermody Harp of Erin (1807) II. 173 Swelling with the praise of flatt'rers vile, Outspend profusion on their menial train.

1840 F. Trollope Michael Armstrong I. ii. 38 He had already acquired more envy and hatred among his friends and neighbours, by the superior degree of intimacy he had contrived to achieve with her, than by all his successful struggles to outspend them all.

1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life xx. 350 King Cole was not a jollier old soul than Illustrissimo of that day; he outspent princes.

1969 Jrnl. Risk & Insurance 36 531/1 It is among the younger..families that the housewife family outspends the working-wife family by the greatest margin.

1990 Sun (Baltimore) 11 Mar. 8/2 It is a farm supply bill which outspends even the President himself.