EXPEND, EXPENDITURE
ADJECTIVES
1600 ► SUMPTUARY pert. to or regulating expenditure
NOUNS
1483 ► LAVISH profusion, excessive abundance, extravagant outpouring or expenditure; prodigality, lavishness → obs.
1559 ► SUMPTUOSITY lavishness or extravagance of expenditure; magnificence or luxuriousness of living, equipment, decoration, or the like; sumptuousness; squandering, prodigality
1560 ► SUMPT expenditure, expenses → obs.
1591 ► MIS-SPENSE improper or wasteful expenditure → obs.
1614 ► LARGESSE lavish expenditure → obs.
1843 ► MIS-SPENDITURE wasteful expenditure → obs.
1898 ► ON-WAUR expenditure, outlay, trouble, labour → Sc.
1900 ► DIGS-AN-DRAKES wasteful expenditure → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS, PERSON
1789 ► SUMPTUARY one responsible for expenditure → obs.
VERBS
1486 ► IMPEND to pay to someone; to spend, to expend; to apply money; to bestow → obs.
1584 ► LAY FORTH to spend, to expend → obs.
1905 ► MEISLE to waste imperceptibly; to disappear gradually; to expend in a trifling manner → Sc. (Bk.)
1923 ► AXE to lessen expenditure → Eng. sl.