dispender

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A steward or treasurer. Early,Modern,obsolete
    — He was so greatly beloued of al sorts of people for his gentlenes, affability & liberality, as many men liuing, but more at their death (especially Cleargy men) would put their goods & children into his hands; the one assuring themselues of a faithfull keeper, the other of a discréete and conscionable dispender.

词形变化

dispenders plural

词源

Inherited from Middle English dispendour, from Old French despendour. By surface analysis, dispend (“distribute, dispense”) + -er. Doublet of dispenser and spencer.
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