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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
spend .
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Examples
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One day his Steward came to him and said, “O my lord Nur al-Din, hast thou not heard the saying, Whoso spendeth and reckoneth not, to poverty wendeth and recketh not?”
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When I consider this, I know that it behoveth him who seeketh his livelihood in this world to leave not a day without seeking the goods of the world to come, so shall he content this world with that which he gaineth of the fatness of the earth and satisfy the other world with that which he spendeth of his life in seeking after it.
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For what reason is there that he which laboureth much and, sparing the fruits of his labour, consumeth little should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets; seeing the one hath no more protection from the Commonwealth than the other?
Leviathan 2007
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For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
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There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
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For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
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There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
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Wherefore Edgar being misledde with a fond affection, returned into England; and afterward being subiect vnto diuers changes of fortune (as we haue aboue signified) he spendeth [Marginal note: When the author was writing of this history.] now his extreeme old age in an obscure and priuate place of the countrey.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Neither may any man in Venice buy more salt then he spendeth in the city, for if he be knowen to carte but one ounce out of the due and be accused, hee looseth an eare.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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He hath houses full of golde and siluer, and bringeth in often, but spendeth very little, and hath the mines of rubies and saphires, and spinelles.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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