pending

Verb (1)

pend (third-person singular simple present pends, present participle pending, simple past and past participle pended)

1. (obsolete) To hang down; to cause something to hang down
2. (Scotland, obsolete) To arch over (something); to vault.
3. (obsolete) To hang in reliance on; to depend (on or upon); to be contingent on.
   • pending upon certain powerful motives1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC

Verb (2)

pend (third-person singular simple present pends, present participle pending, simple past and past participle pended)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To pen; to confine.
   • soche frowarde creatures as many women are, ought rather to be pended vp in a cage of iron1564, Nicholas Udall, Apophthegms, translation of original by Erasmus

Verb (3)

pend (third-person singular simple present pends, present participle pending, simple past and past participle pended)

1. (transitive) To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).
   • The latest list of detainees would be pended and they would be allowed to return to their homes on a temporary basis.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 817

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