† perˈpendant, -ent, a. Obs. rare.
[f. per- 4 + pendant, -ent.]
a. Remaining appendant. b. Hanging down very much.
| 1642 tr. Perkins' Prof. Bk. x. §643. 278 A man seised of a mannor unto which an advowson is appendant doth thereof enfeoffe a stranger ‘Exceptis, reservatis etc. or Praeter’ one acre, and name the acre, and the Advowson, this is a good exception... And the Advowson shall be perpendant unto the acre which is reserved. 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. xi. 108 Their perpendent Lips hang down above a Cubite low. |