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offsend

offsend noun: a dismissal; the act of sending away.

Noun

offsend (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural, rare) 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 circumstance1924, Report of the Speaking Following the Dinner to Dr. Alfred Worcester, at the Hotel Somerset, Boston, December 1, 1924, page 13

Verb

offsend (third-person singular simple present offsends, present participle offsending, simple past and past participle offsent)

  1. (rare) To send; to emit.
    • The arterial supply of the iris comes from the circulus iridis major, encircling the peripheral border of the iris; these branches offsending numerous small branches toward the pupil, these branches, meanwhile sending off smaller branches into the substance of the iris.1890, W.S. Simpson, M.D., The Northwestern Journal of Homeopathy, volumes 1-4, number 8, page 171
    • Nevada, with a population of less than one hundred thousand, will offsent Pennsylvania with a population of nearly eight millions.1918, H.S. Rich and Company (publisher), The Western Brewer, volume 50, number 1, page 72

Examples of offsend in a sentence

  • ... so he offsends the fastidious reader with his blatant use of big words like 'spirit' and 'beauty'.1960, Time and Tide, volume 41, numbers 27-53, page 835:
  • And this would offsend the incontrovertible principle laid down by the House of Lords in Chichester Diocesan Fund and Board of Finance v.1977, University of the West Indies (Cave Hill, Barbados), Faculty of Law, UWI Student's Law Review, volumes 2-8, page 52:

Forms of offsend

third-person singular presentoffsends
present participleoffsending
past participleoffsent
pastoffsent

Origin of offsend

From off- + send.

Questions about offsend

What does offsend mean?
Offsend means a dismissal; the act of sending away.
How do you use offsend in a sentence?
... so he offsends the fastidious reader with his blatant use of big words like 'spirit' and 'beauty'.
What part of speech is offsend?
Offsend can be a noun or a verb.

Words near offsend in the dictionary

  1. offscreens
  2. offscum
  3. offscums
  4. offseason
  5. offseasons
  6. offsend
  7. offsending
  8. offsends
  9. offsent
  10. offset
  11. offset lithography

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