recumbency

Mr Blenkiron, having finished his after-dinner recumbency, had sat up and pulled a small table towards him.

Greenmantle 2005

The recumbency and the peace of the dead impress me — warriors at rest under their old banners.

The Waves 2003

But the gospel directs us to proceed 'from faith to faith,' viz. from faith in God to faith in Christ: for true and saving faith is not a mere naked recumbency immediately upon God, which faith the Jews were wont to profess, but faith in God by the mediation of faith in Christ.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Faith has many degrees, and many acts; — some at a kind of distance from the object, in mere reliance and recumbency; and many other acts of faith make very near approaches to the object, and rise up to sensible experience.

Sacramental Discourses 1616-1683 1968

A serious full recumbency and rolling of the soul upon Christ in the promise of the gospel, as an all-sufficient Saviour, able to deliver and save to the utmost them that come to God by him; ready, able, and willing, through the preciousness of his blood and sufficiency of his ransom, to save every soul that shall freely give up themselves unto him for that end, amongst whom he is resolved to be.

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

In the meanwhile, if the character of the infectious material is not so virulent, the disease will take on a slower course and the subject may experience laminitis from supporting weight upon the sound member, or because of continued recumbency, decubital gangrene and emaciation sometimes cause death.

Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

Some writers state that it may be produced by confining an animal in recumbency, with the casting harness.

Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

Chinese recumbency in matted and moistened veranda, and the odors of fresh growing beds of flowers wafted by the southern breeze.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

In attempting to assume the perpendicular, Mr. Brown Bunkem was signally frustrated, as the result was a more perfect development of his original horizontal recumbency, assumed at the conclusion of a very vigorous fall.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 Various

A. Normal recumbency on the table with pillow supporting the head.

Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911