pendent en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈpɛndənt/ (UK)
Etymology
From Middle English pendaunt, Anglo-Norman pendaunt, pendant, respelled to reflect Latin pendēns, pendentis, present participle of pendere (“to hang, to be suspended”). Compare pendant, which retained the spelling.
Meanings
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Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; […]
1818, John Keats, “Book III”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 149, lines 932–935:The doctor's head [...] was framed in the golden semi-circle of a wig with long pendent curls that touched his shoulders […]
1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 71:An interesting development has been the analysis of the image of a pendent drop by a video digitizer.
1986, Bryant W Rossiter, Roger C Baetzold, Investigations of Surfaces and Interfaces:Now had they brought the work by wondrous Art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent Rock / Over the vext Abyſs, […]
1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 312–314:
- Pending (in various senses).
- (of a structure) Either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
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Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.
page 207: de CAMPO REAL: chequy Sable and Argent on a chief Gules a crescent pendent of the field.
1981, Bruno Bernhard Heim, Armorial Bruno Bernard Heim, Colin Smythe:Jandrell, Sa. three buckles, the tongues pendent ar. two and a one.
1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry:JAUDRILL. Ermines, three round buckles ar. tongues pendent.
1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, page 49:Az. a chev. or, betw. three acorns, pendent, Kymberlee.
1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry: Dictionary of Heraldry, page 89:
- (of a sentence) Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
- (obsolete) Projecting over something; overhanging.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most pendent | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more pendent | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
pendent jurisdiction · semipendent · pendently
Relateds
Translations (13)
es pendente (hanging down) · de schwebend (hanging down) · mi hauwere (hanging down) · de Hänge- (hanging down) · la pendulus (hanging down) · de überhängend (hanging down) · mi whakatāweru (hanging down) · es pendiente (hanging down) · de hängend (hanging down) · mi hāwere (hanging down) · de aufgehängt (hanging down) · de anhängig (hanging down) · bg висящ (hanging down)