单词 | discumbing |
释义 | † discumbingn. Obsolete. The action or practice of reclining, esp. when dining.Chiefly used in discussions of the dining practices of the ancient Jews, esp. with reference to how the apostles were seated at the Last Supper. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > [noun] lairc893 lying?c1225 reclination1556 discubation1641 discumbing1641 decumbence1646 decumbency1646 discumbency1646 recubation1646 recumbency1646 discumbiture1655 discubiture1656 discumbence1656 decubation1664 decumbiture1670 recumbence1670 decubitus1879 1641 E. Kellett Tricoenium Christi i. vii. 41 The Iewes borrowed the fashion of Discumbing from the Romanes. 1683 J. Evans Case of Kneeling: Pt. I 21 At the beginning of the Paschal Feast the Jews did put themselves into this Discumbing or Leaning posture..while they Eat and Drank the two first Cups of Wine. 1700 T. Bennet Answer Dissenters Pleas 170 Some convenient posture, such as Kneeling, Sitting, Discumbing, Standing. 1730 C. Lamotte Ess. Poetry & Painting 84 Christ and his Disciples did then use a lying or discumbing Posture. 1791 Lett. to Friend containing Vindic. Church of Eng. I. ix. 175 The Jews in their solemn feasts used discumbing. 1820 T. Pruen Illustr. Liturgy II. ii. 35 It is unquestionable it was changed into a discumbing posture (that is, a posture wherein they took their ordinary meals) long before the days of our Saviour. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1641 |
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