Decubation

Quick meaning: Decubation is a noun meaning (obsolete, rare, formal) The act of lying down.

Meaning

(obsolete, rare, formal) The act of lying down.

Example Sentences

Whatever might evene, I was procinct against a decubation in a state of deteriority, by an infrangible consortion with an amotorculist.

Here we may not omit what Learned men have obſerv'd concerning the Cuſtome of Prophets and Perſons inſpir'd of old, to ſleep [...] on Matraſſes and Beds made of their Leaves, ad Conſulendum to ask adviſe of God. [...] At this decubation upon Boughs the Satyriſt ſeems to hint where he introduces the Gypſies.

The editor of one of our Aberdeen papers, [...] jumped on board a farmer's pony, and bounded over the river's banks with more vigour than grace, knocked a few pipes out of the teeth of Aunt Sally in a field hard-by, and knocked two men into an attitude of decubation at Cults Station on the way home because they dared to intrude on his first-class privacy. Not a bad record for an afternoon, was it?

Synonyms for decubation

Depending on context, synonyms include cubation, decumbence, decumbiture.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include decubitus, liedown, drowsing, debacchation, depo, decocture.

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