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excubant

excubant adjective: watchful; keeping watch or guarding.

Adjective

excubant (comparative more excubant, superlative most excubant)

  1. (formal) Watchful; keeping watch or guarding.
    • The enemy may be still excubant: and we had better not disperse till daylight.1831, Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle

Forms of excubant

comparativemore excubant
superlativemost excubant

Questions about excubant

What does excubant mean?
Excubant means watchful; keeping watch or guarding.
What part of speech is excubant?
Excubant is an adjective.

Words near excubant in the dictionary

  1. excruciators
  2. excrudescence
  3. excrudescences
  4. excrutiate
  5. excsc
  6. excubant
  7. excubation
  8. excubitoria
  9. excubitorium
  10. exculpable
  11. exculpate

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