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on-sendan

  • verb [ weak ]
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to send off, despatch (an emissary)
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  • Onsende

    direxit,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 27, 19
      • .

  • Him his sunu hám onsende

    filium remisit,

    • Ors. 4, 11
      • ;
    • Swt. 206, 2
      • .

  • Hine God ús onsende,

    • Beo. Th. 770
      • ;
    • B. 382
      • .

  • Se ðisne ár hider onsende,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 3207
      • ;
    • An. 1606
      • .

  • Ðá onbeád heó him ðæt hé hire tó onsænde all ða gesíðwíf,

    • Shrn. 87, 21
      • .

  • Ðæt hé Angelþeóde onsende láreówas,

    • Bd. 2, 1
      • ;
    • S. 501, 29
      • .

  • Hwylcne Arcebiscop hé onsendan mihte on Angolþeódes cyricum,

    • 4, 1
      • ;
    • S. 563, 29
      • .

  • Tó ǽlcum biscepstóle on mínum ríce ic wille áne ( a copy of the translation ) onsendan,

    • Past. pref.
      • ;
    • Swt. 9, 1
      • .

  • Onsended

    distinatus,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 26, 64: 28, 15
      • .

  • Ic wæs hider onsended,

    • Blickl. Homl. 9, 20
      • .

  • Hé wæs of heofenum onsended,

    • 131, 13: Chr. 430
      • ;
    • Erl. 10, 18
      • .

  • Onsendum gewritum

    missis literis,

    • Bd. 2, 10
      • ;
    • S. 512, 17
      • .
to send forth or out,
literal
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  • Ðǽr wǽron on carcerne ccxlviii wera and xlix wífa, ða Andreas ðanon onsende,

    • Blickl. Homl. 239, 15
      • .
metaph.
to emit (an odour, etc.)
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  • Of ðære stówe mycel swétnes onsended wæs,

    • Bd. 5, 12
      • ;
    • S. 629, 35
      • .

  • Seó beorhtnes ðæs onsendan leóhtes,

    • 4, 7
      • ;
    • S. 575, 9
      • .
to send forth (the spirit), to give up (the ghost)
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  • Sóna swá hé ðás word gecwæþ, hé his gást onsende,

    • Blickl. Homl. 191, 29
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  • Heó hire gást onsænde, and hire líchoma resteþ on Ðæssalonica ðære ceastre,

    • Shrn. 70, 28
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  • Heó onsænde hire gást tó Gode,

    • 107, 31
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  • Hé sceal þurh gáres gripe gást onsendan,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 374
      • ;
    • An. 187
      • .
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v.  an-sendan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “on-sendan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/24733.

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