pendulate

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 .

Watch a male in fight. He will pendulate over one spot for ten or fifteen minutes , then change his position and pendulate again .

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.

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 your dog or cat.

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Here the rachis is bent at the point of its origin, and thereby it produces pendulate inflorescence.

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.