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offsend

noun

Etymology

From off- + send.

  1. inherited from *sandijaną✻
  2. inherited from *sandijan✻
  3. inherited from sendan — “to send, cause to go”
  4. inherited from senden
  5. prefixed as offsend — “off + send”

Definitions

  1. A dismissal

    A dismissal; the act of sending away.

    • out of the service as quietly as I had entered some thirty years before; the kind of an offsend I then escaped was of the official, obligatory stamp, while this, tonight, has been prompted by no external circumstance

  2. To send

    To send; to emit.

    • Nevada, with a population of less than one hundred thousand, will offsent Pennsylvania with a population of nearly eight millions.
    • ... so he offsends the fastidious reader with his blatant use of big words like 'spirit' and 'beauty'.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for offsend. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA