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Pendicle, -ikil(l, -akill, n. Also: -i(c)kle, -ykill, -icl, -ickell, -ickile, -icule; -acle, -akle, -akyll; -ekle, -ec(k)le, -ekyll; and peindicule, penticle. [Med. L. (Brit.) pendiculum (1250), pendeculium (c 1450) tassel, padlock (c 1336), parchment strip for a seal (1391), (Sc.) appurtenance (1481), penticulum pendant (ornament) (1300), tail of mitre (1295), penticulus adj. dependent (1267), f. L. pendēre to hang (cf. Pend v.¹ and v.²). Only Sc.]

1. A subsidiary, dependency or adjunct of anything; an appurtenance or appendage.

a. A piece of land or other property regarded as subsidiary to a main estate. Also comb. in pendicle land.(1) 1443 Highland P. II. 178.
Al his landis … with the pendiclis that is to say Edirlyng, Cambisnew [etc.] 1500 Acta Conc. II. 470.
Til enter thame to the tak and set of his landis of the Redehewis with thair pendiclis 1506–7 Reg. Privy S. I. 202/2.
With the landis of Makmartinstoun and all utheris annexis and pendiclis thairof 1511–12 Ib. 361/2, etc.
The landis and barony of Parbroth with thair pertinentis, partis, outsetis and pendiclis 1561–2 Reg. Privy C. I. 203. 1574 Hist. Kinloss A. 91. 1574–5 Reg. Privy C. II. 426. (1532–3) Balfour Pract. 175.
Landis may be pertinentis and pendiclis of uther landis, albeit thay ly not contigue to the samin 1582 Perth B. Ct. 1 June.
All … my corne mylne mylne landis [etc.] … with the pendiclis and pertinentis or of ony pert thairof 1588–9 Burntisland B. Ct. 25 Jan.
In … his tenement off land with ȝeard pairtis pendiclis and pertinentis 1611 Reg. Panmure I. xcix.
The landis of Bothe … , Dauid Maule … gat it in fewe … with the pendicle thairof callit Carnekorthie … Thear ar twa wther lytil pendicies … the ane callit [etc.] 1612 Prot. Bk. W. Leslie 18 a.
With thir haill partes and pendicles houssis orcheardis and walles a1633 Hope Major Pract. I. 237.
Ane milne is not comprehended under the generall appellation of parts and pendicles becaus it requyres a speciall seaseing 1641 Peebles Chart. 106. 1670 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS. 21 May.
The haill houses biggingis yeards orchards pairts pendicles and pertinents therof quhatsumever 1672 Wauchopes 33.(b) 1520 Douglas Chart. 219.
Hir landis … witht the tour fortalice maner place myllis onsettis annexis pendiculis steddis [etc.] 1536–7 Rec. Earld. Orkney 222.
With all and sundrie uther pertis, pendickells and pertinantis quhatsomever 1540 Acts II. 376/2.
Pendiculis 1545 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 596.
The Manis of Mareculter … with the cottoune … and peindiculis tharof 1550 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I. 451.
Pendikillis 1561 Dumfries B. Ct. 2 a.
With the pendiculis & pertinentis in all 1591 Lennox Mun. 333.
The forsaidis landis or ony part and pendickile of the sameing(2) 1420 Pitfirrane Writs No. 14, N.L.S. Chart. 6014.
The said landis of Balmongy pendikil til the lordschip of More cambous 1492–3 Acta Conc. I. 271/1.
He clamis the sammyn [lands] to pertene to him … as a pendicle and annexum of the lordschip of Bothuile 1494 Ib. 329/1. 1497–8 Ib. II. 106.
The saidis landis war annexit … to his thanedome of Caldor and as ane pendicle thareof … resignit in our soverane lordis handis 1516 Fife Sheriff Ct. 41.
The milne of Orky lay within the said baronye and was ane pendicle of the samyn 1541 Exch. R. XVII. 717.
Lwnlevin, ane pendikle of the said Manys c1575 Balfour Pract. 40. 1577 Stewart Mem. 105.
Nocht to … intromett with the sammyn [lands] nor ony part nor pendicule thairof 1604 Ib. 112.
Pendeclis 1611 Lothian Dioc. Synod iii.
He and his predicessoris heritoris of thrie pendicles of the Mans of Arnistoun 1627 Rep. Parishes 42.
The landis of Arnestoun ar distinguischit in terras dominicales de Arnestoun quhilk wes the maynes et villam de Arnestoun quhilk wes callit the pendicles 1641 Acts V. (1817) 611/2.
The pendicles of the saides landes of Kersheid commounlie callit the merchrig [etc.] 1658 Peebles B. Rec. II. 45.
Except he sell the tenement of land to which the saids sowmes ar joyned and is a pendicle 1682 Decis. Lords F. 9.
The lands … whereof Milrig is a pendicle c1686 Depred. Clan Campbell 74.
Out of the lands of Drumurk, Keppochan and its pendicles(3) 1627 Rep. Parishes 43.
The Schankis pendicle geving denominatioun to the haill becaus the maner house wes built thairvpone 1648 Old Ross-shire I. 161.
Lands of Craigskorrie, Keannahaird, pendicle Teainhair(4) 1527 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 49.
The pendicle of land callit Dudwik 1611 Reg. Panmure I. xcix. 1627 Bamff Chart. 215.
The quarter … of the said pendickle of land of Frewchy 1649 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 688.
That pendicle of the … landis of Argethin callit the Auldtoune balkis 1671 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. III. 409.
He caused his followers … pleugh thorow the said pendicle and other partes of the compleaners heritage(5) comb. 1642 Melrose Reg. Rec. I. 98.
Ane rude of pendickle land

b. A place, district or the like regarded as a smaller detached portion of a larger territory, an attachment or outlier; a place, district or the like regarded as subordinate to an administratively superior territorial unit, an administrative dependency.(1) 1503 Orkney Rentals . 33.
This ile is a pendicle of the maneland 1533 Bell. Livy I. 16/10.
Fra the begynnyng of Lavyne to the begynnyng of Alba the colony and pendikillis thareof war xxx ȝeris a1595 Descr. Isles 428.
The remanent haill iles were reknit but as pertinents and pendicles of the said four iles 1664 Pitcairn Spiritual Sacrifice 205.
The obtaining of temporalls that they as pendicles and casualities of the kingdom of grace may be added(2) 1561–2 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 130.
The toun of Kingorne is ane pairte and pendicle of this toun [Leith] 1581 Pittenweem Ann. 7.
Anstruther be west the burn ane pendikill of Pettinweme and subject with Pettinweme in all king's taxations 1584 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 379.
This burgh and the pendicles thairof is taxt to [etc.] 1632 Lanark B. Rec. 323.
Pendiclis 1656 Musselburgh 113.
The inhabitants within the burgh of Musselburgh and pairtes and pendicles thairof 1665 Edinb. B. Rec. X. i.

c. An ecclesiastical dependency; a daughter church, etc. Also comb. in pendicle kirk.(1) 1516–7 Reg. Privy S. I. 451/2.
The vicarage of Cluny … ane of the kirkis and pendiklis of his kirk and personage of Kincardin 1607 Acts IV. 399/2.
The abbacie of Kelso and cell of Lesmahago quhilk is ane pendicle of the said abbacie 1610 Buchan Cl. IV. 192.
A new place maist … expedient for the ease baith of the mother kirk and the said penticle 1612 Reg. Soltre 249.
The kirk of Dumbarnie quhairof the kirkis of Potie and Moncreif ar pendiclis 1618 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 371.
That the chaple of Kearne is onlie ane pendicle of the kirk of Forbes 1627 Rep. Parishes 30.
Pendicl 1637 Baillie I. 2.
Had [we] been truly … but a pendicle of the dioces of York [etc.] 1641 Acts V. (1817) 562/2.
Lyand within the foirsaid mother parochine of Falkirke & chappelrie & pendicle of Dennie a1658 Durham Comm. Rev. 688.
Romes greatness in her self or pendicles such as abbacies, monasteries, etc.(2) comb. 1647 Moray Synod 84.
The pendicle kirks of Urquhart and Glenmoristoune

d. Applied to other things, non-material and (rarely) material.(1) 1461 Newburgh B. Ct. 6 b.
The pendakyll swld nocht be declarit quhyl the pryncipail war excludit 1516 Acta Conc. MS. XXVIII. 36.
Parliament to be continewit … with all summondis actiouns and pendaklis pertenyng to the samin 1517 Ib. XXX. 109.
Pendaclis(b) 1469 Newburgh B. Ct. 37 a.
That the prenspall sulde be desydit owr the pendekyll 1609 Grahame Anat. Hum. 7 b.
It is the true pendeckles of gentilitie to … make a cuckold of thy furnisher(c) c1515 Asl. MS. I. 329/10.
Lawis cannoun [etc.] … ar bot pendikilis apon Cristis law of grace a1599 Rollock Wks. I. 387.
And all conjunctions amang men ar bot ane pendicle of that quhilk is betwixt God and man 1600 Cal. Sc. P. XIII. 636.
[For sufficient clearing of those doubts as a] pendicle [of my late employment] 1609 Acts IV. 448/2.
The keiping of the saidis signettis shall be … a particular pendicle of the said office of secretarie 1641 Anal. Scot. II. 392.
Episcopacie … and all the pendikilles thereof 1669 Jus Populi 3.
Unto every part and pendicle of that abjured hierarchy 1675 Misc. Hist. Soc. I. 288.
The subdivisions, parts and pendikils off phanatisism 1684 Lauder Observes 134.
It seims they mind to make that shirefship follow the chancelor's office as a pendicle theirof(2) 1641 Acts V. (1817) 506/1.
Quhairin they transport twa boatis or ȝolles as pendicles of the said schipis c1646 Craufurd Edinb. Univ. fol. 60.
For the altar and other pendicles of that idolatrous service

e. A specialised craft regarded as a subsidiary part or a subdivision of a larger or more general craft. 1630 Stirling B. Rec. I. 165.
James Henrye beltmaker … to enter with the said hammermen and thair craft to quhom … he properlie pertenis as … uther beltmakeris … are in use to enter with being a pairt and pendicle of thair calling 1657 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 375.
Being both of them burgessis of this burghe and friemen of the corporatioune of wright trad within the samyne quhairof ane glaswright is ane pendicle Ib. 376.
That the tred of a glaswright is nothing but ane pendicle of that calling [the trade of wright] 1673 Glasgow Wrights Acts 16.
Makeing mentioune of his miscariage towards him publicklie by calling him and other honest men of the tred bot pendicles

2. A cloth hanging used as or in the manner of a valance, esp. a superfrontal for an altar or a valance for a bed or for some other suite of curtains.(a) 1488 Treas. Acc. I. 85.
A couering of … tartar … Item a ruf and pendiclis of the same c 1500 Coll. St. Salvator 154.
Ane frontall of blak clayth of gold with pendiklis of blak worsat 1538 Treas. Acc. VII. 43.
For the chesable, frontar, pendikle of the kingis chapel with the pertinentis 1555 Crail Ch. Reg. 64. 1559 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 43.
Saint Gelis cloke … with the pendicle of reid crammesye welwote, alias callit the waill 1568 Edinb. Test. I. 193.
Ane pair of grene courtenis with thair pendiclis 1569 Prot. Bk. J. Drummond 77.
Thrie piece of courtingis of purpour and wariant dammes frenȝeit with purpour silke and gold with thair rufe and pendicle of the same fessoun a1586 Maitland Ho. Seytoun 39. 1591 Edinb. Test. XXIII. 209.
Ane pendicle of quhyt about ane bed 1592 Ib. XXIV. 75.
Ane sewit pendicle 1596 Montgomery Mem. 236.
About my bed … sex pair of courtingis with thair pendicles 1610 Edinb. Test. XLVI. 112 b.
Ane pendicle and ane pair of new courtingis(b) c 1500 Coll. St. Salvator 155.
For the hee alter of arres j pendykill and ane nodyr of syngill worsat 1536 Treas. Acc. VI. 279.
Ane pair courtingis … To lyne the pendikill ane elne of reid bukrem 1541 Ib. VIII. 43.
Deliverit … to be pendykillis and frontellis to the king and quenis altar vij elnis half elne Frenche blak 1555 Crail Ch. Reg. 65.
Foure pendykillis to the lady alter … all with frontaillis 1561–2 Inv. Q. Mary App. cxli.
Ane frontole and ane pendikill of blak weluous sternit with gold 1562 Edinb. B. Deeds 62 b.
Ane stand bed … with … courtingis and pendikill(c) 1497 Edinb. Hammermen 22 b.
For iiij eln of worsait to mak the pendakillis of 1540–1 Treas. Acc. VII. 434.
Four elnis half elne raid dammes to be ane pendakill to the chapell in the abbay 1560 Cart. S. Giles xlvii.
The sacrament clayth of clayth of gold with Sanct Gelis coitt and the litill pendekle of reid veluett that hang at his feit 1561 Inv. Q. Mary app. cxlii.
Ane pendakill of silk ane frontoll of clayth of gold

3. A hanging ornament or attachment, a pendant; ? chiefly = Pendas n.(1) 1582 Treas. Acc. MS. 36 b.
Tuelf buckillis of siluer and xxij pendesis damasket … for the fassioun of ilk buckill with twa pendeclis 1587 Edinb. Test. XVII. 117.
Ane siluer quhissell ane pendace and ane heid of ane siluer belt … the … pendakill and heid of belt 1648 Peebles B. Rec. I. 382.
The said bell haveing appendit therto thrie little belles and eight pendicles all weyand ane pund tuo ounces 1666 Ib. II. 73.
The silver arrow which wants the ridge or fether and ane hanging pendicle(2) 1641 Baillie I. 309.
As for poor Canterburie he is so contemptible that all casts him by out of their thoughts as a pendicle at the Lieutenant's eare