pensile
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- pensill (obsolete)
Etymology edit
From classical Latin pēnsilis, from the past participle stem of pendere (“to hang”).
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pensile (comparative more pensile, superlative most pensile)
- Hanging down, suspended.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 165:
- However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon […] is of no slender antiquity.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane standards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or Pans of Incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes[.]
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Etymology edit
From Latin pēnsilis (“hanging”). Doublet of pesolo. Compare Portuguese pênsil.
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pensile (plural pensili)
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pensile m (plural pensili)
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pēnsile