recubation

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noun

recumbence; a state of lying down

OriginLatin recubare →
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Meanings

nounrecubation (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountablerecumbence; a state of lying down

    French and Italian translations, expressing neither position of session nor recubation, do only say that he placed himself at the table; and when ours expresseth the same by sitting

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

Origin

  1. Latinrecubare“to lie upon the back”
  2. Englishrecubation

From Latin recubare (“to lie upon the back”).

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APA

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Chicago

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