recubation

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From its long recubation, it had become divested of its bark, foliage, and smaller branches; leaving only its knarled trunk and concomitant adjuncts, its crural like limbs.

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  1. The act of lying down or reclining. [Rare.] The French and Italian translations, expressing neither position of session or recubation, do only say that he placed himself at the table. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 6.

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  1. from Latin recubare, past participle recubatus, lie upon the back, lie back, recline: see recumbent.
 

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