Word Meanings - EXPENSEFULL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of expense; costly; chargeable. Sir H. Wotton. -- Ex*pense"ful*ly, adv. -- Ex*pense"ful*ness, n.

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• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• PENSEL
  A pencel. Chaucer.
• CHARGEABLENESS
  The quality of being chargeable or expensive. Whitelocke.
• EXPENSEFULL
  Full of expense; costly; chargeable. Sir H. Wotton. -- Ex*pense"ful*ly, adv. -- Ex*pense"ful*ness, n.
• EXPENSE
  1. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure. Husband nature's riches from expense. Shak. 2. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense
• EXPENSELESS
  Without cost or expense.
• COSTLY
  1. Of great cost; expensive; dear. He had fitted up his palace in the most costly and sumptuous style, for the accomodation of the princess. Prescott. 2. Gorgeous; sumptuous. To show how costly summer was at hand. Shak.
• DISPENSE
  1. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott. 2.
• MISPENSE
  See HALL
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
• UNDISPENSED
  1. Not dispensed. 2. Not freed by dispensation. Tooker.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• RECOMPENSER
  One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe.
• RECOMPENSE
  recompensare, fr.L. pref. re- re- + compensare to compensate. See 1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak. 2. To return an equivalent for;
• OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
  Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;
• RECOMPENSEMENT
  Recompense; requital. Fabyan.
• SUSPENSELY
  In suspense. Hales.
• MISSPENSE
  A spending improperly; a wasting. Barrow.
• PREPENSE
  To weigh or consider beforehand; to premeditate. Spenser. Sir T. Elyot.
• OVERCOSTLY
  Too costly. Milton.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."