discubitory

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adjective

leaning; fitted for a reclining posture

OriginLatin discumbere →
Scrabble 19
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Meanings

adjectivediscubitory (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleterareleaning; fitted for a reclining posture

    custome by degrees changed their cubiculary beds into discubitory

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
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    […]for Lucullus his discubitory beds were adorned with purple; and himselfe served in dishes of gold and silver[…]

    1641, Edward Kellett, chapter 20, in Tricoenivm Christi in nocte proditionis suæ: The threefold svpper of Christ in the night that he vvas betrayed, london

    Hexaclīnon, i. n. a dining room holding six discubitory couches.

    1836, John Dymock, LL.D., A new abridgment of Ainsworth's dictionary, English and Latin, for the use of grammar schools, Philadelphia: Alexander Towar, and Carey, Lea & Blanchard, page 144

Origin

  1. Latindiscumbere
  2. Englishdiscubitory

From Latin discumbere, discubitum (“to lie down, recline at table”), from dis- + cumbere (“(in comparative) to lie down”).

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