Pensile
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈpɛnsaɪl/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Pensile is an adjective meaning Hanging down, suspended.
Meaning
Hanging down, suspended.
Example Sentences
However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon […] is of no slender antiquity.
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[.]
Word Forms
- pensill
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pendulant, filipendulous, pendular, semihanging, pendent, pennoned.
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