sending

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

“sending” is listed under Send.

Origin: AS. sendan; akin to OS. sendian, D. zenden, G. senden, OHG. senten, Icel. senda, Sw. sända, Dan. sende, Goth. sandjan, and to Goth. sinp a time (properly, a going), gasinpa companion, OHG. sind journey, AS. sī…, Icel. sinni a walk, journey, a time. W. hynt a way, journey, OIr. s…t. Cf. Sense.

1. To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.— Jer. xxiii. 21.

I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.— John viii. 42.

Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires.— Jonathan Swift

2. To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.

He... sent letters by posts on horseback.— Esther viii. 10.

O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me.— Ps. xliii. 3.

3. To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.

4. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; — sometimes followed by a dependent proposition. “God send him well!” William Shakespeare

The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.— Deut. xxviii. 20.

And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.— Matt. v. 45.

God send your mission may bring back peace.— Sir Walter Scott

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54