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prodigate (third-person singular simple present prodigates, present participle prodigating, simple past and past participle prodigated)

1. (archaic, transitive) To squander.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 63, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     His gold is prodigated in every direction which his stupid menaces fail to frighten.

参照

• “prodigate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.