v. Sc. Obs. Variant of SUPEREXPEND.
1508. Dunbar, Tua Mariit Wemen, 397. That super spendit euill spreit, spvlȝeit of all vertu. Ibid. (15[?]), Poems, xiii. 23. Sum super expendit [v.r. superspendit] gois to his bed.
1558. Extr. Rec. Burgh Peebles (1872), 251. To be ansuerit of … the rest of the taxt that he is superspendit.
1560. Rolland, Seven Sages, 94. The Knicht … wox sa wonder pure in hand And alwayis superspendit.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., X. 450. When their owne Irish Rent masters haue any voyage for Dublin, or peraduenture superspended at home in feasting of strangers.
