different between bespend vs despend

English

Etymology

From be- (“on, over, about”) +? spend.

Verb

bespend (third-person singular simple present bespends, present participle bespending, simple past and past participle bespent)

1. (transitive) To expend; bestow; employ.
   • 1932, California Poets: An Anthology of 244 Contemporaries - Page 606:

     Over their sleep, convalescent of old woes, The native, barren grandeur of the wind, Schooled of the granite, salt, and sea, bespends A roaming testimony to their thoughts While tons of heavy waves oppress cold rocks.

English

Alternative forms

• dispend

Verb

despend (third-person singular simple present despends, present participle despending, simple past and past participle despended)

1. (obsolete) To spend; to squander.
   • February 1 1623, James Howell, "to the Lord Viscount Colche?ter" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

     Some noble men in Spain can despend 50000 l. ?ome Forty, ?fome Thirty, and divers twenty thou?and Pounds per annum.

References

despend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• depends, spended