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English
Adjective
dispendious (comparative more dispendious, superlative most dispendious)
- (archaic) expensive, costly
1928, George Gordon Coulton, Life in the Middle Ages. Selected Translated & Annotated by ---, CUP Archive, page 96:Wherefore the aforesaid William (after a long and dispendious stay at the Roman Court, after much and unavailing waste of money, after many bulls obtained on his behalf, . . . seeing that his wiles profited him little or naught in all these matters ...
1870, Sir Edward Robert Sullivan, Protection to Native Industry, page 37:It would be much better for the community if sufficient inducement existed for the rich and dispendious classes to expend their surplus wealth on articles of home rather than on those of foreign production; the effect of the commercial legislation ...