Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of lying down or reclining.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Recumbence.
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- noun obsolete
recumbence
Etymologies
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Latin recubare to lie upon the back.
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Examples
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From its long recubation, it had become divested of its bark, foliage, and smaller branches; leaving only its knarled trunk and concomitant adjuncts, its crural like limbs.
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro
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Lying down. (Grandiloquent Dictionary)
May 16, 2008