† ofsendv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To send for, to summon.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > summon
lathec900
hightOE
clepec1000
ofclepeOE
ofsendOE
warna1250
callc1300
summonc1300
incalla1340
upcallc1340
summonda1400
becallc1400
ofgredec1400
require1418
assummonc1450
accitec1475
provoke1477
convey1483
mand1483
whistle1486
vocatec1494
wishc1515
to call up1530
citea1533
convent1540
convocate1542
prorogate1543
accersit1548
whistle for1560
advocatea1575
citate1581
evocate1639
demand1650
to warn in1654
summons1694
invoke1697
to send for1744
to turn up1752
requisition1800
whip1857
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1050 Se cyng þa sende æfter þam scypum þe he ofsendan mihte.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1048 Ofsænde se cyng Godwine eorl.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 7859 Heo him radden..þat he of-sende Magan.
c1300 St. Gregory (Laud) 52 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 357 (MED) Bote þou him of-sende sone, al rome worth ischend.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 6478 Seint edwardes moder þeruore he of sende, Emme quene of engelond, þat heo hider wende.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. ii. 37 (MED) Sir Simonye is of-sent to asseale þe Chartres.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 1911 Þe dukes of þe londe..of-sendeþ quyk socour hende.
a1450 St. Balaam (Bodl.) 516 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 128 (MED) Þe king hym ofsente his acountes to caste.
c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) 1564 (MED) Þe lord of-sente hys stede, Hys scheld, hys ryche wede.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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