discumbency

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noun

A reclining position at a meal table, as was apparently the manner in old times such as in Ancient Rome.

OriginLatin discumbens →
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Meanings

noundiscumbency (uncountable)
  1. archaicuncountableA reclining position at a meal table, as was apparently the manner in old times such as in Ancient Rome.

    among the Insticutionary rules of youth , he adviseth they might not be permitted to hear Iambicks and Tragedies before they were admitted unto discumbency or lying along with others at their meals

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latindiscumbens
  2. Englishdiscumbency

From Latin discumbens, present participle of discumbere. See discubitory.

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APA

discumbency. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discumbency

MLA

“discumbency.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discumbency. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “discumbency,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discumbency.

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