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Pensile vs Pensible - What's the difference?

pensile | pensible |

As adjectives the difference between pensile and pensible

is that pensile is hanging down, suspended while pensible is (obsolete) held aloft.

pensile

English

Alternative forms

* pensill (obsolete )

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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)

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    pensible

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Held aloft.
    • (Bacon)
    (Webster 1913)