foresend

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English *foresenden (compare biforesenden), from Old English foresendan (“to send before”), equivalent to fore- +‎ send.

Verb

foresend (third-person singular simple present foresends, present participle foresending, simple past and past participle foresent)

  1. (transitive) To send before; send beforehand.
    • 1885, Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Walter Rye, Report on the manuscripts of the family of Gawdy:
      I presume to foresend my wife's maid with her linen, as the state of the city occasioneth me thereunto by increase of deaths, which many fear and flee.

Anagrams

Old English

Verb

foresend

  1. imperative singular of foresendan
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