v. Sc. Obs. Also 6 -exspend. [SUPER- 9 b. In med.L. superexpendĕre was applied to supererogatory fasting.]
1. To be superexpended: to have spent beyond one’s income or means; to be out of pocket or in arrears: often with advb. acc. or phr. expressing the amount.
1473. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 75. And sua is the Comptare superexpendit jm jc lxxix li. iiij s. x d.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xiii. 23. Sum super expendit gois to his bed.
1559. Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 325. Quhat he beis super expendit, the same to be allowit to him.
1591. Exch. Rolls Scotl., XXII. 162. The comptar is superexpendit de claro in the sowme of aucht thousand ane hundreth fourtene pundis sevin schillingis fyve pennyis.
1637. Rutherford, Lett. (1862), I. lxxxv. 219. We shall be … so far from being superexpended … that angels cannot lay our counts nor sum our advantage and incomes.
1676. Row, Contn. Blair’s Autobiogr., xii. (1848), 453. They were not provided with horses … being superexpended by attending Parliament so long.
1686. Burnet, Trav., i. 24. The Bailifs … pretend they are so far super-expended, that they discount a great deal of the publick revenue, of which they are the receivers, for their reimbursement.
2. trans. To spend (time) wastefully. rare.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, Direct. 31. Quhar that I haue my tyme superexpendit, Mea culpa, God grant I may amend it.
