discumbency
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English
Etymology
From Latin discumbens, present participle of discumbere. See discubitory.
Noun
discumbency (uncountable)
- (archaic) A reclining position at a meal table, as was apparently the manner in old times such as in Ancient Rome.
- 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:
- 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
References
- “discumbency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.