See Also: pendent(medicine)
pendent(dictionary)
pendent(dictionary)

pendent (iou)



pendent adjective. Also pendant. LME.
[formed as PENDANT noun; later infl. by Latin pendent- pres. ppl stem of pendere hang: see -ENT.]
Hanging downwards. LME.
Lytton The boat gently brushed aside their pendant boughs. Holiday Which? Mackintosh's library, with its pendant light fittings.
Overhanging; jutting out. Also, slanting. LME.
b. fig. Impending. rare. E19.
Hanging or floating unsupported in the air or in space; supported above the ground on arches, columns, etc. (now rare or obsolete). L16.
E. Bowen A full moon pendent over the river.
Hanging in the balance, undecided, unsettled, pending. M17.
Grammar. Of a construction, esp. a sentence: incomplete; having no verb. M19.
pendently adverb (rare) M17.