a. Obs. [f. EXPENSE + -LESS.] Without expense. Of things: Inexpensive. Of persons: Free from expense, frugal(ly.
1644. Milton, Educ., 5. He … may at some time or other, save an Army by this frugall and expencelesse meanes.
1703. Penn, in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem., IX. 241. Keep my son as expenseless as may be.
1712. Blackmore, Creation (1786), 108. What health promotes … Is all expenseless, and procur’d with ease.
1786. Francis the Philanthropist, III. 152. I gave him my time for expenceless promises.
