Ge-sendan

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-sendan
Add: I. the object a living creature. (l) to cause to go on an errand, for a purpose, to a place, dispatch :-- Ðú mec gesendes, Jn. L. 17, 8. Ne gesende God sunu his in middangeard ꝥte gedoemde middangeard, 3, 17. Bisin fadores in wíngeard suna ðæs gesendnes (mittentis), Mt. p. 19, I. Wǽren ǽrendracen gesend of Róme tó Ængla lande, Chr. 785 ; P. 55, 3. Wéron gesendene hergas his missis exercitibus suis, Mt. L. 22, 7. In cummenum foreonfoeng, in gesendena embichta in venientibus praesumtio, in missis obsequium, p. 8, 2. (2) with a sense of compulsion or violence, to send to prison, into exile, &c. :-- Mæht gesenda l tó gesendanne in tintergo, Lk. L. 12, 5. Hé gesendad wæs in carcerne, 23, 25. Gesendet, Jn. L. 3, 24. II. where the object is not a living creature, to cause to be conveyed :-- Rehtlic wére ðec gesende strión mín mynetrum, Mt. L. 25, 27. III. to communicate motion to an object, move to a place of rest, put, lay. (l) the object material :-- Helpend ne hafo ic ꝥte gesende (dó, W.S.) mec in ꝥ fiscpól, Jn. L. 5, 7. Gif ðes monn bond his in ðisum wætre gisende. Rtl. 102, 7: 100, 39. (2) the object non-material :-- Mið diúl gesende in heorta is ꝥte salde hine, Jn. L. R. 13, 2. IV. with a stronger sense of motion, to cast, throw :-- Hí gesendon nett in sǽ, Mt. L. 4, 18. Ðá yflo hí út gesendon (áwurpon, W.S.), 13, 48. Ðá ðe gesendon ðingo hiora . . . qui mittebant munera sua in gazophilacium, Lk. L. R. 22, I. On sǽ gesended (beworpen, W.S.), Mk. L. R. 9, 42. V. to send forth, emit sound, utter a word :-- Ðás ásægdniso tó eáre rúmmódnise ic gisendo (emitio). Rtl. 125, 7. Mið ðý gesende stefne micla emissa uoce magna, Mk. L. 15, 37. Gesended ne ꝥ áne word emissum non solum uerbum, Mk. p. I. 10. VI. the object not expressed , to send a messenger or a message :-- Gié gesendon tó Ióhanne and cýðnise getrymede, Jn. L. 5, 33. Hí gesendon in alle lond ðǽm, Mt. L. 14, 35. [Goth. ga-sandjan: O.H.Ger. ge-senten.] ge-sendan
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