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recumbency|rɪˈkʌmbənsɪ|
[ad. L. type *recumbentia, f. recumbĕre: see recumbent a.]
1. The state of lying or reclining; a recumbent posture.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. i. 106 The Tricliniums, or places of festivall Recumbency. 1695J. Edwards Perfect. Script. 138 The head or upper end of this bed..was..the chief place of recumbency. 1784Cowper Task i. 82 Relaxation of the languid frame, By soft recumbency of outstretch'd limbs. 1836E. Howard R. Reefer lxiv, There was not much room for recumbency. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 193 If the patient be feeble, constant recumbency on the back is to be avoided.
b. fig. Repose.
1653Gauden Hierasp. 451 To invite all errours..to a recumbency or rest in their bosome. a1704Locke (J.), When the mind has been once habituated to this lazy recumbency and satisfaction on the obvious surface of things, it is in danger to rest satisfied there.
2. fig. Reliance on or upon a person or thing. Chiefly in religious use. Now rare.
1646Fuller Wounded Consc. (1841) 309 The life and formality of faith, which consists only in a recumbency on God in Christ. 1653Gauden Hierasp. 178 In some there ought to be an eminency.., upon whom the greatest recumbency of Churches may be laid. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey) s.v., He had a great Recumbency upon his Promise. 1738Wesley Serm. (1838) I. 7 A recumbency upon him as our atonement and our life. 1814T. Bell View Cov. Wks. & Grace 360 He believed this truth not at all as the devils do, but with a recumbency of heart on the Son of God.
b. Without const. Also pl.
1642T. Goodwin Christ set forth v. x. 197 A Faith of Recumbency, or, of Comming unto Christ. 1667Waterhouse Fire Lond. 65 His great arrows are..fixed in the very hearts of mens delights and recumbencies. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. xi. 250 So also all the Affiance or Fiducial Acts are excluded,..even that which they call Recumbency being distinct from Consent. 1826R. Hall Wks. (1832) 394 It produces recumbency, a slothful dependence upon God and neglect of the precautions of religion and the rules of duty. |