propendere

1 propendēre [CL] 1 to hang down; b (understood as trans.). [pallii] due linee ~entes sunt due leges, Christi passionem preferentes W. Fitzst. Thom. 25 p. 37.  b si pedes extra lectum ~erentur, non adverteret W. Cant. Mir. Thom. II 86. 2 (transf.) to be inclined (towards), to have propensity for; b (pr. ppl. as adj.) prone, inclining. [fomes peccati] ad male agendum pronos redditura, unde declines ~eant ad vitia Pull. Sent. 763A.  b quantum ad mentem in dies fit in vetita ~entior, in dijudicando tardior Pull. Sent. 758B. 3 to depend (on), stem (from). reipublicae salus a recta juventutis institutione ~et Ferr. Kinloss 6. 4 (p ppl. propensus as adj.) eager, willing, urgently disposed,keen; b (w. ad or in & acc. or in & abl.). ejusque tectis restaurandis curam habeat ~iorem sicut habere desiderat salutem Gosc. Transl. Mild. 21 p. 182; xx manc. emendetur, nisi prohibitio ~ior amplius exigat (Leg. Hen. 37. 2) GAS 567; quicquid per negligenciam ‥ peccavimus exactiore et ~iore diligentia in posterum emendemus Bald. Cant. Serm. 6. 9. 414; cura ~iori bonus fieri quam videri malens Gir. EH I 43; hiis, si laudabiliter vixissent, ~iorem sciebat deferri honorificentiam Ad. Eyns. Hug. V 1 p. 77; mater vero, mulier bona, Walthenum, velut Rebecca suum Jacobum, affectu ~iori diligebat J. Furness Walth. 11; 1278 ~iorem diligenciam desiderate provisioni eidem ecclesie impensuri Reg. Heref. 57.  b 1100 sicut benignitas mea ~ior est in eis (Ch. Regis11) GAS 522n; in ejus liberationem conjugali caritate ~ior W. Malm. HN 507; faciam ‥ tantoque impensius quanto vos ~iores ad audiendum esse animadverto Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 61. 5 urgently required. huic Willelmo [regi Scocie] vendidit rex [Anglie] Ricardus pro sumptibus ~ioribus ad Terram Sanctam castellum de Berwick Otterb. 72.

2 propendĕre [ML= to weigh, assess] , to extend further,to spread widely. ~o -is, i. extendere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 446.