单词 | recubation |
释义 | † recubationn. Obsolete. The action of reclining or lying down; a reclining posture.In later use chiefly with reference to animals. 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 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. vi. 244 The French and Italian translations expressing neither position of session or recubation, do onely say that he placed himselfe at the table. View more context for this quotation 1780 T. Sheridan Gen. Dict. Eng. Lang. II Recubation, the act of lying or leaning. 1855 J. Stewart Stable Bk. (1856) vii. 360 He [sc. the horse] is able to obtain more rest when standing than any animal I know of; yet, without recubation, his repose is never completed. 1893 Jrnl. Compar. Pathol. & Therapeutics 6 83 The free end of the tumour must have protruded from the vulva during recubation, and..it must have been trodden on and lacerated by the foot of a neighbouring cow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1646 |
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