Meanings
adjectiveexcubant (comparative more excubant, superlative most excubant)
comparative more excubant · superlative most excubant
- formalWatchful; keeping watch or guarding.
The enemy may be still excubant: and we had better not disperse till daylight.
1831, Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle
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