ppl. a. [f. prec.]
1. Dispersed; scattered.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), I. 329. This once select nation of God is become now a scorned squandered people all the earth over.
1681. Dryden, Span. Friar, I. i. Upon the Skirts Of Arragon our squander’d Troops he rallies.
1692. Bentley, Boyle Lect., vii. 231. ’Tis necessary that these squander’d Atoms should convene and unite.
1820. Clare, Rural Life (ed. 2), 118. Beckoning hints … That guide the squander’d covey home.
1883. Pennell-Elmhirst, Cream Leicestersh., 236. Six men were a quarter of a mile to the good of their squandered field.
2. Spent profusely or extravagantly.
1801. Southey, Thalaba, I. xxxii. What was to him the squander’d wealth?
1851. Helps, Comp. Solit., x. 195. He sees what he might have done with the squandered resources.
transf. 1897. Westm. Gaz., 4 Sept., 2/3. Squandered love was never blessed.
