“discumbent”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

discumbent

释义

† discumbent, a. and n. Obs.
Also 6 discom-.
[ad. L. discumbent-em, pr. pple. of discumbĕre: see discumb.]
A. adj. Reclining.
1715I. Mather Several Serm. iii. 95 The Jews..sat at their Tables in a discumbent posture.1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 197 Bathing is best administered in a discumbent posture.
B. n.
1. One who reclines at table; a guest at a feast.
1562W. Bullein Use Sickmen 73 b, He cast doune al the meate from the borde, fallyng out with all the discombentes.1614T. Adams Devil's Banquet 135 A beastiall Banket; wherein either man is the Symposiast, and the Deuill the discumbent; or Sathan the Feastmaker, and man the Guest.
2. One confined to bed by sickness; = decumbent n.
1765Gale in Phil. Trans. LV. 193 a.d. 1721 The discumbents were 5,989, whereof 844 died.Ibid. 194 The discumbents were estimated at 4,000, whereof about 500 died.

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