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Repentance. [Obs.] Wyclif (Luke xv. 7).

To hang; to depend. [R.] Pending upon certain powerful motions. I. Taylor.

Something which hangs or depends; something suspended; a hanging appendage, especially one of an ornamental character; as to a chandelier or an eardrop; also, an appendix or addition, as to a book. Some hang upon the pendants of her ear. Pope. Many . . . have been pleased with this work and its pendant, the Tales and P…

Supported from above; suspended; depending; pendulous; hanging; as, a pendent leaf. "The pendent world." Shak. Often their tresses, when shaken, with pendent icicles tinkle. Longfellow.

An appendage; something dependent on another; an appurtenance; a pendant. Sir W. Scott.

Depending; pendent loosely; hanging; swinging. Shak. "The pendulous round earth. Milton.

r condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition. "Penitence of his old guilt." Chaucer. Death is deferred, and penitenance has room To mitigate, if not reverse, the doom. Dryden.

Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life. Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite. Milton. The pound he tamed, the penitent he cheered. Dryden.

One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a dependent. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. Milton. Old pensioners . . . of Chelsea Hospital. Macaulay.

To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life. Men hate those who affect that honor by ambition which pertaineth not to them. Hayward.

ts the cause of the Greeks; particularly, one who supported them in their struggle for independence against the Turks; a philhellene.

A combining form, denoting relation to, or dependence upon, natural causes, or the science of physics.

Involving the principles of both physics and chemistry; dependent on, or produced by, the joint action of physical and chemical agencies. Huxley.

ards together. "Aa if she would pin her to her heart." Shak. To pin one's faith upon, to depend upon; to trust to.

art of the leaves transformed into pitchers or cuplike organs, especially the species of Nepenthes. See Nepenthes.

Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.

of the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the chromosome, to subsequent generations. In bacteria, plasmids often carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are exploited in genetic engineering as the vehicles for in…

pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. The Declaration of Independence.

ng to, or exhibiting, poles; having a polar arrangement or disposition; arising from, or dependent upon, the possession of poles or polar characteristics; as, polaristic antagonism.

ce in many forms; the coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents.