Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To hang or swing freely; swing; dangle; vibrate as a pendulum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To swing as a pendulum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
swing like apendulum .
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Examples
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The reticule ceased to pendulate, the conversation stopped abruptly, the boy and girl stood profoundly astonished.
The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 Anonymous
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Sure, it's traditional for Americans to vote either Dem or Repug, just as in Canada we perilously pendulate between the lookalike Fibs and ConArtists, but IT'S A FALSE TRADITION.
YayaCanada 2008
sera commented on the word pendulate
"to swing as a pendulum"
August 13, 2007