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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.
  • Heó hire gást onsænde, and hire líchoma resteþ on Ðæssalonica ðære ceastre,

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

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

      Andr. Kmbl. 374; An. 187.
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v.  an-sendan.
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