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Pensill vs Pensile - What's the difference?

pensill | pensile | Alternative forms |

Pensill is an alternative form of pensile.


As adjectives the difference between pensill and pensile

is that pensill is while pensile is hanging down, suspended.

As a noun pensill

is .

pensill

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, 1631, , Narratives of Voyages Towards the North-West, section=instructions to Iohn Coatesworth, page=168, year_published=2001, isbn=1402195826 citation
    • , passage=Fifthly, being thus on land with your compasse, set all lands or islands in sight, draw the form with your paper and pensill , and estimate their distance.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1483, , Letters of the Kings of England, chapter=Richard III. to Piers Courteis, Keeper of his Wardrobe, year_published=1846, page=153 citation
    • , passage=

    Adjective

    (head)
  • * 1658 , Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus , Folio Society 2007, p. 165:
    • However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon [...] is of no slender antiquity [...].
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    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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