Accumbent

Quick meaning: Accumbent is an adjective meaning Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.

Meaning

Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.

More Meanings

1. (botany) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf
2. One who rests in an accumbent position, especially at table.

Example Sentences

Together his accumbent pose and closed eyes denoted sleep, as an alternative to death, which the stiff, recumbent pose of previous effigies had embodied.

Let us, indeed, see how the point of view has changed which was held in regard to those cultivated and glib accumbents who in former days were taken for real social workers.

What a pennance must be done by every accumbent, in sitting out the passage through all these dishes; what a task the stomach must be put to in the concoction of so many mixtures.

Said also to be fond of playing practical jokes, he was apparently in the habit of placing his dinner guests on inflated cushions, which were contrived to deflate suddenly, sending their unsuspecting accumbents sprawling under the tables.

Word Forms

• accumbents

Synonyms for accumbent

Depending on context, synonyms include reclining, decumbent.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reclining, decumbent, incumbent, sedentary, succumbent, enclin'd.

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