pendulate

To swing like a pendulum.

Adjective

pendulous.
- Here the rachis is bent at the point of its origin, and thereby it produces pendulate inflorescence. - 1967, Kenjiro Fujii, Cytologia, page 447:
- Above the lower headcut, phreatophytic mesquite and little leaf sumac hug the banks, drawing pendulate water from the silts remaining from former marsh deposits and sending long taproots into channel stores. - 2007,...
- The first group of genotypes demonstrates a pendulate/spreading form, whereas the second group remains upright when the fruits grow on the shoots. - 2021, Debashis Mandal, Ursula Wermund, Lop Phavaphutanon, Temperate...

To swing like a pendulum.
- There is an old trick of suspending a shilling by a thread, and causing it to pendulate within a glass , so as to strike its sides , the thread being held between the finger and thumb . - 1851 December 20, J.O.N Rutter,...
- Watch a male in fight. He will pendulate over one spot for ten or fifteen minutes , then change his position and pendulate again . - 1903, Nature-study, Entomology: Section D: Lepidoptera, page 8:
- Lungarella and Metta (in Lungarella, M. and Metta, G. 2003) studies the role of changes in the qcquisition of primary motor abilities: learning to pendulate (to swing like a pendulum) or bounce. In the first case the...
To vacillate between states, especially states of arousal and of relaxation.
- What's important to realize is that you can pendulate—swing back and forth—between these sensations of expansion and contraction. - 2012, Peter A. Levine, Healing Trauma:
- If it stops feeling okay, pendulate to thinking about (or doing) something that feels nurturing for you: it it's available to you, get up and move around, look at a favorite picture or painting, talk to a friend, or pet...
- When we can pendulate between between those vagal states, shift between frozen to connected to withdrawing to integrated, this is the ANS capacity at its best, "mov[ing] between sympathetic and parasympathetic modes in...