archipendulum

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Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

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"ETHICKS is represented in painting by a lady of a sober, grave aspect, holding the instrument archipendulum in one hand, with the other a lion bridled."
"Alberti's equilibra, which he uses first for the levelling of water and later for the weighing of small objects, is really a makeshift archipendulum."
"The altitude/angle of Polaris could be measured by either the cross-staff aboard a vessel at sea, or an archipendulum on shore at a stone circle megalith."

From archi- + pendulum.

archipendulums (plural) archipendula (plural)

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