exspire

verb

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of expire.

   “[…] until the sev͛all dayes and tymes apoynted and agreed for the payment of the said Myse shalbe exspired, And lykewyse the dayes and tymes of the said Subsidie lately graunted to oʳ said Sov͛aigne Lorde and Lady be past and exspired; […]”

   “[…] yet ſeing the tyme of circumciſion is exſpired therfor in fants are not now to be ſealed (as you ſay) by baptiſme; for the exſpiring of the tyme is the repealing of the Law: […]”

   “[…] that if this Command were never repealed in the ſubstance of it, nor did ever exſpire by any other thing ſucceeding in its place, then it muſt needs be ſtill binding; for certainly, it was once, as obligatorie, proclaimed by the Law-giver himſelf, and was never ſince in its ſubſtance repealed, nor is it exſpired or found hurtful in its nature, but is as neceſſary now as then; […]”

   “The flanks of a broken-winded horse are a long time in drawing up or contracting, which shows the difficulty he feels in expelling the air from his lungs, or in exspiring; but when that is effected, the flanks drop suddenly, which shows that the air enters the lungs, or that the animal inspires with much greater ease than he exspires.”