p. te; pp. ed. I. to sink (trans.), plunge, immerse :-- Wæs his gewuna ðæt hé hine on ðam streáme sencte solebat in flumine supermeantibus undis immergi, Bd. 5, 12 ; S. 631, 22. II. to submerge, flood with water :-- Abraham wolde his sunu cwellan folmum sínum fýre(?)sencan mǽges dreóre [flood the pile with his son's blood), Cd. Th. 176, 4 ; Gen. 2906. Ne biþ flód tó sencende (tó stencende (?) dissipans) ða eorþan. Gen. 9, 11. [Forte reauin hire bodi and i þea sea senchen, Jul. 79, 1. Goth. saggkwjan : O. Sax. be-senkian ; O. H. Ger. sencan mergere: Icel. sökkva.]