a. [f. L. fūni-s rope + pendul-us hanging + -OUS.] Hanging from a rope; connected with a hanging rope.
1706. W. Jones, Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos, 290. The greater the Funipendulous Body is, the less does the Medium Resist it.
1829. T. L. Peacock, Misfort. Elphin, vi. 92. The exhibition of some half-dozen funipendulous forgers might have shocked … his humanity.
1863. De Morgan, Budget (1872), 336. And so, having shown how the reviewer has hung himself, I leave him funipendulous.
