Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Expensive

Expensive , adjective

1.
Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.
War is expensive, and peace desirable. — Burke
2.
Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad sense: extravagant; lavish. [Rare]
An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness. — Sprat
The idle and expensive are dangerous. — Sir W. Temple