Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being weighed.
- Pensile.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Held aloft.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Held
aloft .
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Examples
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De Rure Albo (socolled becauld it was chalkfull of masterplasters and had borgeously letout gardens strown with cascadas, pinta-costecas, horthoducts and currycombs) and set off from Luds — town a spasso to see how badness was badness in the weirdest of all pensible ways.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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With re« gard to God, it is the. setting before us the covenant of mercy and pardon, to which he is pleased to admit mankind, on con - dition of their repentance and amend -, mem; and from hence arises the indis - pensible necessity of repenting of our past sins, and entering into resolutions of obedience for the future, as oft as we come to renew this covenant in the Sa - crament of Christ's Body and Blood,,
The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Explained: Or the Things to be Known and Done, to Make a ... Edmund Gibson 1813
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