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discubitory

discubitory adjective: leaning; fitted for a reclining posture.

Adjective

discubitory (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) leaning; fitted for a reclining posture
    • […]for Lucullus his discubitory beds were adorned with purple; and himselfe served in dishes of gold and silver[…]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
    • custome by degrees changed their cubiculary beds into discubitory1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin of discubitory

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

Questions about discubitory

What does discubitory mean?
Discubitory means leaning; fitted for a reclining posture.
What part of speech is discubitory?
Discubitory is an adjective.

Words near discubitory in the dictionary

  1. discs
  2. discstone
  3. discstones
  4. disct
  5. discts
  6. discubitory
  7. disculp
  8. disculpate
  9. disculpated
  10. disculpates
  11. disculpating

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