cumbent

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Tom Gray, Republican in­­cumbent, and Lois Wymore, Democratic candidate, will challenge one another for the Moffat County Commission District 1 seat.

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  1. Lying down; reclining; recumbent. [Rare.] At the fountaines are as many cumbent figures of marble under very large niches of stone. Evelyn, Diary, Nov. 12, 1644. A handsome monument of Caen stone, being a cumbent effigy on an altar-tomb, was placed on the north side of the chancel [in Whalley church] in 1842. Baines, Hist. Lancashire, II. 7, note.

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  1. from Latin cumben(t-)s, present participle of *cumbere (only in comp. concumbere, incumbere, etc.), nasalized form of cubare, lie down: see cubit, and cf. accumbent, incumbent, procumbent, recumbent.
 

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