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pendent

adj
/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.

  1. derived from pendēns
  2. derived from pendaunt
  3. inherited from pendaunt

Definitions

  1. Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.

    • Now had they brought the work by wondrous Art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent Rock / Over the vext Abyſs, […]
    • 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; […]
    • The doctor's head [...] was framed in the golden semi-circle of a wig with long pendent curls that touched his shoulders […]

  2. Pending (in various senses).

  3. Either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs…

    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.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Hanging or pointed downward

      Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.

      • Jandrell, Sa. three buckles, the tongues pendent ar. two and a one.
      • Az. a chev. or, betw. three acorns, pendent, Kymberlee.
      • JAUDRILL. Ermines, three round buckles ar. tongues pendent.

    2. Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.

    3. Projecting over something

      Projecting over something; overhanging.

    4. Alternative spelling of pendant.

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Derived

pendent jurisdiction, pendently, semipendent

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA