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The quality or state of being pendent or suspended.

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.

The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.

In a pendent manner.

A canine appetite; bulimia. [Obs.]

Of, like, or pertaining to, phagedena; used in the treatment of phagedena; as, a phagedenic ulcer or medicine. -- n.

Phagedenic.

A form of dentine which shows sinuous lines of structure in a transverse section of the tooth.

or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another.

Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services. Shak. "A precedent injury." Bacon. Condition precedent (Law), a condition which precede the vesting of an estate, or the accruing of a right.

Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.

Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions. All their actions in that time are not precedential to warrant posterity. Fuller.

Beforehand; antecedently.

The quality or state of being prefident. [Obs.] Baxter.

Trusting beforehand; hence, overconfident. [Obs.] Baxter.

Cutting off; abstracting. [R.] Cheyne.

See Presidency. [Obs.]

The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care.

Precedent. [Obs.] Bacon.

Presiding or watching over. "Presidential angels." Glanvill.