offsend

English

Etymology

From off- +‎ send.

Noun

offsend (plural not attested)

1. (rare) A dismissal; the act of sending away.
   • 1924, Report of the Speaking Following the Dinner to Dr. Alfred Worcester, at the Hotel Somerset, Boston, December 1, 1924, page 13:

     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

Verb

offsend (third-person singular simple present offsends, present participle offsending, simple past and past participle offsent)

1. (rare) To send; to emit.
   • 1890, W.S. Simpson, M.D., The Northwestern Journal of Homeopathy‎, volumes 1-4, number 8, page 171:

     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.

   • 1918, H.S. Rich and and Company (publisher), The Western Brewer‎, volume 50, number 1, page 72:

     Nevada, with a population of less than one hundred thousand, will offsent Pennsylvania with a population of nearly eight millions.

   • 1960, Time and Tide‎, volume 41, numbers 27-53, page 835:

     ... so he offsends the fastidious reader with his blatant use of big words like 'spirit' and 'beauty'.

   • 1977, University of the West Indies (Cave Hill, Barbados), Faculty of Law, UWI Student's Law Review‎, volumes 2-8, page 52:

     And this would offsend the incontrovertible principle laid down by the House of Lords in Chichester Diocesan Fund and Board of Finance v. Simpson, that a charitable trust must be exclusively used for charitable purposes