Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To recline, according to the ancient fashion at table. See
accubation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To recline, as at table.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
recline , as at table.
Etymologies
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Latin accumbere, present active infinitive of accumbō ("recline (at a table)"), from ad + *cumbō ("lie down") (only in compounds).
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