For-sendan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - for-sendan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

for-sendan
Add: I. to send away from a country, exile, banish :-- Þisne æþeling Cnut cyng hæfde forsend on Ungerland, Chr. 1057; P. 188, 9. II. to throw away, cast away. (1) lit. :-- Hét hé hym gebyndan ánne ancran on hys sweoran and hyne forsendan on sǽ, Shrn. 150, 20. (2) fig. to send to destruction, destroy :-- Dauid miclum his ágnes herges pleh and monigne forsende, Past. 36, 8. [O. H. Ger. fer-senten amittere, relegare: Ger. ver-senden.] for-sendan
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