pend

To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).

Noun Scotland

  1. An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard.

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French pendre (“to hang”), from Late Latin pendĕre, from Latin pendēre.

Forms

pends

Synonyms

alley

Noun India, uncountable

  1. oil cake

Verb obsolete

  1. To hang down; to cause something to hang down
  2. To arch over (something); to vault.
  3. To hang in reliance on; to depend (on or upon); to be contingent on.
    • pending upon certain powerful motives - 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:

Forms

pends pending pended

Related

append independence pinder pinner

Verb obsolete, transitive

  1. To pen; to confine.
    • soche frowarde creatures as many women are, ought rather to be pended vp in a cage of iron - 1564, Nicholas Udall, Apophthegms, translation of original by Erasmus:

Origin

Compare pen (“to shut in”).

Forms

pends pending pended

Verb Entry 5

  1. 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:

Origin

Back-formation from pending.

Forms

pends pending pended