foresend

To send before; send beforehand.

Verb

  1. To send before; send beforehand.
    • 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. - 1885, Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts,...

Origin

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

Forms

foresends foresending foresent forsend