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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mispend, v. Also: mispent. P.t. and p.p. mis-, myspent; mis(s)-, mys(s)pendit. [ME. myspende (Piers Plowman), e.m.E. mis-, mys(s)pend.] tr. To spend or use amiss or wastefully, misspend.(a) a1578 Pitsc. I. 9/27.
Bot daylie his bodie he did mispent [: content] a1650 Row 419.
More thousands to debosh and mispend nor [etc.](b, c) a1400 Leg. S. xxxiv. 44.
Scho that welth and that beute Myspendit in sic degre That [etc.] c1500-c1512 Dunb. xlv. 19.
Mispendit 1513 Doug. xiii. Prol. 110.
That I haue my tyme mysspendit, So lang on Virgillis volume 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 16.
Misspendit 1563-72 Ferg. Tracts 72.
Mispendit(b) a1500 Henr. III. 165/86.
For we repent all tyme mispent forthocht a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 536 (Harl.).
Myspent 1528 Lynd. Dreme 201.
Off haly Kirk the … rent … temporallie thay haue it all mispent a1570-86 Maitland Maitl. F. clxxx. 28.
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