ˈpendulously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a pendulous manner; so as to hang or swing; with a swaying movement. Also fig. Waveringly, undecidedly.
| 1633 Prynne Histriomastix 152 Mans corrupt nature is farre more pendulously propense to vitious, than to good examples. 1697 Derham in Phil. Trans. XX. 2, I left an Eye in the Wire, to suspend the whole Barometer..that it might hang pendulously. 1873 L. Wallace Fair God vii. vii. 474 Between the work of yesterday and that to come his mind played pendulously. 1882 O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. x. 175 The fruit hanging pendulously above the heads of the passers-by. |