recubation

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English

Etymology

From Latin recubare (to lie upon the back).

Noun

recubation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) recumbence; a state of lying down
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:
      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

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