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▪ I. † sent, n. Obs.
Also 5 sente.
Aphetic form of assent n.
c1350Will. Palerne 1983 Þat þemperour ne schuld souche þa ȝhe at sent were. 1389in Eng. Gilds (1870) 58 Be ye sent of alle ye breyeren and systers of yis gilde. a1450Le Morte Arth. 2278 Through the sente of All by-dene Ganne the kynge A lettre make.
▪ II. † sent, v. Obs.
Aphetic form of assent v.
13..Gosp. Nicod. 512 (Add. MS.) To þaire consayle..We will noȝt sent. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 5336 Þai prayde þair horse moght þar a byde; Þe gude wyf sent þar to. 16..Eger & Grine 38 in Percy Fol. MS. (1867) I. 355 They Ladye granted her good will, her father sented there soone till.
▪ III. sent, ppl. a.|sɛnt|
[pa. pple. of send v.]
a. In senses of the vb. Also in comb. as heaven-sent.
1483Cath. Angl. 330/1 Sent, missus, destinatus. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 852 The Sender not the sent. 1825H. C. Robinson Diary Dec. (1967) 86 Irving. He is a highly gifted man; he is a sent man, but they who are sent sometimes go further than they ought.
b. slang. (See quot. 1940.)
1940Amer. Speech Oct. 337/1 To be sent, to be completely satisfied and in a stupor from the drug. 1951Manch. Guardian 21 June 5/1 The slang of jazz addicts, which is full of phrases like ‘hepsters’, getting ‘high’, being ‘sent’ and other euphemisms for the delirium induced by improvised solos on the cornet and slide trombone. 1958Spectator 25 July 133/3 The girls wore thick eye-makeup and ‘sent’ expressions.
▪ IV. sent
obs. f. scent n. and v.; obs. var. cent2.
▪ V. sent(e
obs. forms of saint. |