offsend

1. no pluralrareA dismissal; the act of sending away.

   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

   1924, Report of the Speaking Following the Dinner to Dr. Alfred Worcester, at the Hotel Somerset, Boston, December 1, 1924, page 13

present singular third person offsends · participle present offsending · participle past offsent · past offsent

1. rareTo send; to emit.

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

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

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   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.

   1890, W.S. Simpson, M.D., The Northwestern Journal of Homeopathy, volumes 1-4, number 8, page 171

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

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

   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

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