English

Alternative forms

• pensill (obsolete)

Adjective

pensile ‎(comparative more pensile, superlative most pensile)

1. Hanging down, suspended.
   • 1658: However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon [...] is of no slender antiquity — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 165)
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     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[.]

Anagrams

• sleep in

Italian

Adjective

pensile m, f ‎(masculine and feminine plural pensili)

1. hanging, suspended

Derived terms

• giardino pensile

Related terms

• pensilina

Noun

pensile m ‎(plural pensili)

1. wall cabinet; wall cupboard

Latin

Adjective

pensile

1. nominative neuter singular of pensilis
2. accusative neuter singular of pensilis
3. vocative neuter singular of pensilis