vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. EXPEND: now only gerundial (Const. of). Formerly occas.: Expenditure; consideration; consumption.
1545. Joye, Exp. Dan. xi. Z ij b. This miche haue I lerned sence by the expending and waying of the text.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., IV. xx. (1634), 745. Mony, which they may after waste upon mad prodigall expendings.
1605. Bp. Hall, Medit. & Vowes, II. § 27. 151. If my money were another mans, I could but keepe it; onely the expending showes it my own. Ibid. (1610), Apol. Brownists, § 11. 28. The holy expending of Sabbath dayes appointed.
1745. P. Thomas, Jrnl. Anson’s Voy., 11–2. We likewise had fresh Beef for present expending plenty enough.
