Meanings
comparative more pensile · superlative most pensile · alternative pensill
- Hanging down, suspended.
However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon […] is of no slender antiquity.
1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 1651 more example
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[.]
1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)
Origin
- Latinpēnsilis
- Englishpensile
From classical Latin pēnsilis, from the past participle stem of pendere (“to hang”).
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