What does excubation mean?
Excubation means (obsolete) A keeping watch; a vigil..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete) A keeping watch; a vigil..
Yseult, who was not in the secret, demanded the reason of this perpetual excubation, and was, for the first time, informed that Tristan had sent for the queen of Cornwall.
Infinitely more so than the lucubrations Is the necessity there is for excubations. Hard's the duty in three watches—worse watch and watch— Expos'd to the elements without a thatch […]
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Excubation means (obsolete) A keeping watch; a vigil..
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Yseult, who was not in the secret, demanded the reason of this perpetual excubation, and was, for the first time, informed that Tristan had sent for the queen of Cornwall.
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