单词 | propendent |
释义 | propendentadj. 1. Hanging or pointing forwards, outwards, or downwards. In later use chiefly Botany. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > [adjective] hangingc1330 pendentc1425 beetled1509 bending1567 prependent1592 propendent1593 overwhelming1599 pendulous1608 impendent1611 incumbent1719 imminent1727 impending1730 beetling1744 pensilec1750 pending1756 superincumbent1785 shelvy1811 overbrowing1814 propensive1819 oversailing1833 beetle-browed1842 overhung1845 overhanging1860 overleaning1865 overreaching1890 cantilevered1910 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 32 So did theyr propendant breast-bones imminent-ouer-canopy theyr bellies. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 122 The Lips..besieged with such long and propendent Mustachos. 1687 Philos. Trans. 1686–7 (Royal Soc.) 16 289 Their pods are..propendent, as in the..heath-pease. 1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry vii. xii [A dog] with dejected and propendent ears. 1763 J. Wheeler Botanist's & Gardener's New Dict. 32/1 The lower lip is shorter, and divided into three segments, and the lower or middle one of these is propendent. 1840 J. Paxton Pocket Bot. Dict. Propendent, hanging forwards and downwards. a1868 C. Harpur Poet. Wks. (1984) 173 As like a boat of stainéd pearl, she rode Dipping, as 'twere, with a propendent motion, Amid the ridges of a wavy cloud. 1916 Amer. Midland Naturalist 4 475 The calyx lobes..are long-acuminate with propendent pilosity. 2002 Plant Cell 14 2034 Mutants with early flowering time, short flower pedicels, and propendent siliques also were identified. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [adjective] > inclined set13.. tendenta1340 disposedc1380 enclinant1400 inclining?c1400 inclinedc1405 prone1408 hieldingc1480 talenteda1500 inclinablea1513 prone1528 propense1528 minded1529 propensed1530 ready1533 proclivec1540 fit1574 tending to1578 forward1581 minded1588 propensive1599 intense1620 propendenta1646 propended1693 calculated1723 oriented1925 prone1926 turned1931 orientated1964 a1646 W. Twisse Riches of Gods Love (1653) ii. 140 Such contingents as depend upon the free will of man, are equally propendent on either side to passe as often one way, as the other. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VII. 301 In respect of the Nature of the Thing itself; which we have seen is equally propendent to both Parts, and not discernable which way the Balance inclines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1593 |
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