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forspend, forespend, v.|fəˈspɛnd|
[OE. forspendan, f. for- prefix1 + spendan to spend. Cf. OHG. vorspentôn.]
trans. To spend completely: †a. To exhaust (money or property).
c893K. ælfred Oros. i. i. §23 Swiðost ealle hys speda hy forspendað. c1175Lamb. Hom. 31 Swa þet ic mine oðre god al ne fors-spende.
b. To wear out with toil, etc.; rare exc. in pa. pple.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. li. 9 His livelynes was almoste forspent. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. iii. (1682) 146 Fore⁓spent with age, and with the travel of the Wars. 1799Southey Eng. Eclog., etc. Poet. Wks. III. 142 A painful march..Forespent the British troops. 1814Cary Dante, Inf. i. 21 A man..Forespent with toiling. 1884Punch 23 Feb. 88 Camel and leader onward fare forespent.
Hence forˈspent, foreˈspent ppl. a.
1563Sackville Induct. Mirr. Mag. xii, Her body small soe withered and forespent. 1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 108 Their languishing and forespent body forsaketh their soule. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Valentine's Day, The weary and all forspent twopenny postman. |
