Foresend
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To send before; send beforehand. transitive
"I presume to foresend my wife's maid with her linen, as the state of the city occasioneth me thereunto by increase of deaths, which many fear and flee."
Example
More examples"I presume to foresend my wife's maid with her linen, as the state of the city occasioneth me thereunto by increase of deaths, which many fear and flee."
Etymology
From Middle English *foresenden (compare biforesenden), from Old English foresendan (“to send before”), equivalent to fore- + send.
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