pendent
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈpɛndənt/
adj
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.
- 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; […]”
- Pending (in various senses).
- 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.
- 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.”
- Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
- Projecting over something; overhanging.
noun
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.
- Alternative spelling of pendant.