A-spendan

Old English Dictionary Entry

A-spendan

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 a-spendan

p. de; pp. ed [a, spendan to spend] To spend entirely, consume, squander, to spend, expend, lay out, bestow, distribute; consumere, dissipare, expendere, sumptum facere, erogare, impertiri :-- Ðonne hys gestreón beóþ ðus eall aspended when his property is thus all entirely spent, Ors. 1, 1 ; Bos. 22, 43. Ic aspende yfele distraho, Ælfc. Gr. 47 ; Som. 48, 52. Ic aspende [asende MS.] oððe gife impertior, 37; Som. 39. 13. Aspendan þearfum to spend on the poor; erogare pauperibus, R. Ben. interl. 58 : Scint. 1. a-spendan

Runic Inscription

ᚪ-ᛋᛈᛖᚾᛞᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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