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recubation

recubation noun: recumbence; a state of lying down.

Noun

recubation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) recumbence; a state of lying down
    • 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 sitting1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin of recubation

From Latin recubare (“to lie upon the back”).

Questions about recubation

What does recubation mean?
Recubation means recumbence; a state of lying down.
What part of speech is recubation?
Recubation is a noun.

Words near recubation in the dictionary

  1. rectus femoris
  2. rectus muscle
  3. rectus muscles
  4. Recuay
  5. recubant
  6. recubation
  7. recueil
  8. recueils
  9. recuff
  10. recuile
  11. recuiled

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