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pendulant, a.|ˈpɛndjʊlənt| Also 7– -ent. [f. L. type *pendulānt-em, pr. pple. of *pendulāre: see pendulate. Cf. It. pendolante ‘downe-hanging or dangling’ (Florio).] Pendulous, pendent.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. xxi. 232 [He] brought his..legs..to be very big..the humours descending upon their pendulent instability. 1804–5Miniature (1806) I. 59 To snatch the pendulant chemise From gossamery lines. 1868Dilke Greater Brit. I. i. x. 120 Its leaf is thin and spare..; and its buds pink and pendulent. |