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Superexpend, v. P.p. also -expendyt, -expenditt, -exspendit, -expendet, -ed, -expend, -t, (superexpeteitt). [Expend v. a, b. Cf. Superspend v.] tr.

1. p.p. Of persons: Overspent, having authorised spending beyond one's financial resources; out of pocket, in arrears, also, as a result of being owed money by others. Also fig. c1530–40 Sc. Hist. Rev. XL 100.]
[At the ‘foot’ (in pede compoti) was a statement of the final balance due by or to the accountant or the words ‘Et sic eque‘. Sums remaining due by an accountant were called ‘rests’, those due to him ‘superexpenses’; in the latter case he was said to be ‘superexpended’(1) 1494 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 69.
The thesaurer … to remayne in wairding of his persoun … quhill he gif in his said compt … and gif he be superexpendit that he remayne with the Mairtymes maillis, and gif he be nocht superexpendit that the new thesaurer intermett with the samyn 1496 Acta Conc. II 26.
He … schew the compt … quhair thai war superexpendit be the forgeving and remytting of sowmes be our soverane lord 1544 Corr. M. Lorraine 119.
I haif at all tymmis don my haill cuer quharfor I sustenit greit exspenssis throw the quhilk I am greitly superexspendit 1594 Conv. Burghs I 451.
Superexpendet 1606 Peebles Gleanings 25.
That thair was na yerlie pensioun promisit to hir bot during the tounis will, and that … thay haif gewin her fyve yeiris, … and being superexpendit may bestow na forder 1648 Rec. Kirk Scotl. 529.
Our assembly drove on to the end of the fifth week. Many, dwelling far off & superexpended, slid away 1678 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. III 438.
By the balance of the account, Linthill's father was found super-expended 1697 Misc. Spald. C. II 172.
We have eight legal Presbyteries … laying in whole forty miles long and forty broad, and brethren are superexpended and wasted in their bodies, and will be unable longer to subsist either in persones or purses in one Presbyteryfig. 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1894) 180.
We shall be … so far from being super-expended … that angels cannot lay our counts nor sum our advantage and incomes(2) 1264–6 Exch. R. I 4.]
[Et ita superexpendit v s. et viij d. 1473 Treas. Acc. I 75.
And sua is the comptare superexpendit j^mj^clxxix li. iiij s. x d. 1525–6 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 235.
Chargeing thame to make me payment of samekle as I am superexpendit 1534–5 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 131. 1556 Liber Calchou 485 (see (3) below). 1559 Aberd. B. Rec. I 325.
Quhat he beis super expendit the same to be allowit to him 1567 Exch. R. XIX 353.
His 65 yeris compt of collectorie … quhairin he is superexpendit mair nor the soume of fiftene thousand pundis 1601–2 Montrose Treas. Acc. 2b.
The charge and discharge being considerit by them the cownter is fund super-expenditt ane hunder and sewin poundis xvj s. ij d. awand be the towne to him(3) 1533 Bell. Livy I 122/13.
The king of Romanis … was superexpendit in magnificent bigging 1541 Treas. Acc. VII 484.
All sowmes of money … super expendit in his comptis the tyme he wes thesaurar and comptrollar 1556 Liber Calchou 485.
The comptare is superexpendit in money in this compt j^c l pundis, xij s. vi d. 1578–9 Reg. Privy S. VII 295/2.
Robert, Lord Boyd, lait Collectour Generall is at the fute of his comptis of the yeir [1577] superexpendit in diverse soumes of money 1579 Bk. Old Edinb. C. XV 30.
Desyring ane fyve thowsand pund to be avanceit and lent to his hienes thesaurer or comptroller quha wer superexpendit in his effayres 1580–1 Reg. Privy C. III 347.
Becaus the said wardane hes bene verie suumptuuslie superexpendit in the office of wardanrie c1600 Pont Cunningham 181.
The vmqle. Dauid declairit that he was super-expendit, in chargis of chyrurgianes in hoip of cuiring of his diseis 1611 Brechin Test. II 149.
The said Johne being ane puir handler and superexpendit in seiknes with the plague 1674 Aberd. Council Lett. V 337.
That ilk burghe sould send the proportione of 3006 lib. 13 sh. 4. Scots due to Wm. Broun ther agent wherin he was superexpent in the burrowes affairs in his fittit accompts

b. Penniless. c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus ii 685.
I knew not gif he payit fraucht or fie. Bot as I ges, superexspendit was he

c. Of financial resources, funds: Exhausted; overspent. 1566 Laing MSS 21.
And your Lordship nocht to be sure off payment thair, becaus all is superexpend 1583 Edinb. Univ. Chart. 88.
Because the commoun guid is for the maist part superexpendit 1598–9 Glasgow Burgesses 26.
For advanceing of silver to the towne efter the rentall wes super expeteitt

2. tr. To pay (expenses) in excess of normal expenditure; to pay out of one's own pocket. 1503 Treas. Acc. II 272.
To the vicar of Creich that he hed superexpendit in Faukland or the abbot left the werk thare, xlvij li. xvij s. viij d. 1558 E. Loth. Antiq. Soc. VII 56.
Gevin to the thesaurar of the yeir precedent iii lib. xv sh. vii d. quhilk was superexpendit be him at his compt makin 1645 Army of the Covenant I 291.
Payed to Sir William Cochran of Coudoun by the comitties precept … one thousand merks Scotts superexpendit by him in his accomptes

b. reflex. To ruin oneself financially by overspending; to make oneself out of pocket on another's behalf.p.t. 1567 Acts II 550/1.
Calling to mynd … the gud … seruice done … be hir familiar seruitor … Dauid Chalmer … and that therthrow … he put his persoun in perrell and dainger and alssua gretlie superexpendit him selfp.p. 1566–7 Reg. Privy S. V ii 301/1.
Alsweile in the pairtis of France as within this realme, be the quhilkis he hes superexpendit him self in greit and large sowmes and thirlit his landis and leving

3. transf. To spend (time) wastefully. 1513 Doug. Direct. 31.
Quhar that I haue my tyme superexpendyt, Mea culpa, God grant I may amend it