Offsend
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A dismissal; the act of sending away. no-plural, rare
"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"
- 1 To send; to emit. rare
"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."
Example
More examples"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"
Etymology
From off- + send.
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