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Add: I. the object a living creature.
to cause to go on an errand, for a purpose, to a place,
dispatch
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  • Ðú mec gesendes,

      Jn. L. 17, 8.

  • Ne gesende God sunu his in middangeard ꝥte gedoemde middangeard,

      3, 17.

  • Bisin fadores in wíngeard suna ðæs gesendnes

    (mittentis)

    ,
      Mt. p. 19, I.

  • Wǽren ǽrendracen gesend of Róme tó Ængla lande

      , Chr. 785 ; P. 55, 3.

  • Wéron gesendene hergas his

    missis exercitibus suis,

      Mt. L. 22, 7.

  • In cummenum foreonfoeng, in gesendena embichta

    in venientibus praesumtio, in missis obsequium, p.

      8, 2.
with a sense of compulsion or violence,
to send to prison, into exile, &c.
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  • Mæht gesenda ł tó gesendanne in tintergo,

    Lk. L.

      12, 5.

  • Hé gesendad wæs in carcerne,

      23, 25.

  • Gesendet,

    Jn. L.

      3, 24.
where the object is not a living creature,
to cause to be conveyed
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  • Rehtlic wére ðec gesende strión mín mynetrum,

    Mt. L.

      25, 27.
to communicate motion to an object, move to a place of rest,
put, lay.
the object material
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  • Helpend ne hafo ic ꝥte gesende (dó,

      W.S.)
    )
  • Gif ðes monn bond his in ðisum wætre gisende. Rtl. 102, 7: 100, 39.
the object non-material
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  • Mið diúl gesende in heorta is ꝥte salde hine,

      Jn. L. R. 13, 2.
with a stronger sense of motion,
to cast, throw
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  • Hí gesendon nett in sǽ,

      Mt. L. 4, 18.

  • Ðá yflo hí út gesendon (áwurpon,

      W.S.), 13, 48.

  • Ðá ðe gesendon ðingo hiora . . .

    qui mittebant munera sua in gazophilacium,

      Lk. L. R. 22, I. On sǽ gesended (beworpen, W.S.), Mk. L. R. 9, 42.
to send forth, emit sound,
utter a word
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  • Ðás ásægdniso tó eáre rúmmódnise ic gisendo (

    emitio

    ).
      Rtl. 125, 7.

  • Mið ðý gesende stefne micla

    emissa uoce magna,

      Mk. L. 15, 37.

  • Gesended ne ꝥ áne word

    emissum non solum uerbum,

      Mk. p. I. 10.
the object not expressed , to send a messenger or
a message
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  • Gié gesendon tó Ióhanne and cýðnise getrymede,

      Jn. L. 5, 33.

  • Hí gesendon in alle lond ðǽm,

      Mt. L. 14, 35.
Etymology
[Goth. ga-sandjan: O.H.Ger. ge-senten.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-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/49628.

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