discubitory

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English

Etymology

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

Adjective

discubitory (not comparable)

(obsolete, rare) leaning; fitted for a reclining posture
- 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:
  for Lucullus his discubitory beds were adorned with purple; and himselfe served in dishes of gold and silver
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Together with Some Marginall Observations, and a Table Alphabeticall at the End.">…], 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:
  custome by degrees changed their cubiculary beds into discubitory
- 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:
  Hexaclīnon, i. n. a dining room holding six discubitory couches.

References

“discubitory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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