单词 | recumbency |
释义 | recumbencyn.ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [noun] > moral fall or lapse > moral relapse recidivationa1425 relapsec1475 resiluation1513 residuationa1535 relapsing1591 quadrulapse1595 recumbency1601 recidivism1884 recidivity1890 1601 T. L. tr. Luis de Granado Flowers I. xii. f. 78 If after the grace of this vocation thou hast lost thine innocence of Baptisme by thy recumbencie [L. relapsus] in sin, behold it pleased our Lord God to cal thee again. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > confident hope, trust > [noun] > reliance stay1532 reliance1606 recumbency1641 recumbence1648 1641 E. Leigh Treat. Divine Promises (ed. 2) i. 53 (margin) Gods promises of things temporall and to heare us for others, are but indefinite not universall. The faith therefore required toward them is but an indefinite act of recumbency and submission not of assurance. 1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience x. 74 The life and formality of faith, which consisteth onely in a recumbency on God in Christ. 1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 178 In some there ought to be an eminency.., upon whom the greatest recumbency of Churches may be laid. 1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 65 His great arrows are..fixed in the very hearts of mens delights and recumbencies. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) He had a great Recumbency upon his Promise. 1738 J. Wesley Serm. (1838) I. 7 A recumbency upon him as our atonement and our life. 1826 R. Hall Wks. (1832) 394 It produces recumbency, a slothful dependence upon God and neglect of the precautions of religion and the rules of duty. 1870 W. G. T. Shedd Homiletics iii. 86 There is not this recumbency upon objective and eternal truth, its inherent finiteness and feebleness sooner or later appear. 3. a. The state of reclining or lying down; recumbent posture or position.In later use frequently in medical contexts. 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 iii. i. 106 The Tricliniums, or places of festivall Recumbency . View more context for this quotation 1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. iii. 138 The Head or upper End of this Bed..was..the Chief Place of Recumbency. 1752 Eunuch iv. 59 Finding recumbency most convenient, after the fatigue of our travels, we maintained that disposition till about ten o'clock. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 82 Relaxation of the languid frame, By soft recumbency of outstretch'd limbs. 1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer III. xvi. 201 There was not much room for recumbency. 1881 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 5) 193 If the patient be feeble, constant recumbency on the back is to be avoided. 1931 A. Gardner Medieval Sculpture in France iv. 347 This [sc. the monument sculpture] was modelled on the upright statue with little allowance for its attitude of recumbency. 1968 Brain 91 478 Our less severely affected patients differed only in that these truncal movements were absent in recumbency. 1993 S. J. Ettinger Pocket Compan. Textbk. Vet. Internal Med. xiv. 43 Pressures of CSF are always measured with the patient in lateral recumbency. b. figurative. Rest, repose; torpor. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] > rest roOE restOE leathc1175 quieta1398 leathinga1400 restinga1450 reposinga1470 reposec1485 requiem1565 respire1590 reposure1602 reposal1614 reposance1647 lassation1650 recumbency1653 requiescence1654 1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 451 To invite all errours..to a recumbency or rest in their bosome. a1704 J. Locke Conduct of Understanding §27 in Posthumous Wks. (1706) 85 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 satisfy'd there. 1911 S. Phillips New Inferno vi. 67 Never a quiver or slight tremble passed Over that drugged recumbency of soul. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1601 |
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