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accumbent, ppl. a. and n.|əˈkʌmbənt|
[ad. L. accumbent-em, pr. pple. of accumb-ĕre: see accumb.]
A. adj.
1. Lying up to, or reclining at table.
1727C. Arbuthnot Anct. Coins, etc. 134 The Roman recumbent or (more properly) accumbent posture in eating was introduc'd after the first Punick War.
2. Bot. Lying against anything; used in opposition to incumbent, or lying upon something. A term applied to the embryo of crucifers, when the cotyledons have their edges longitudinally applied to the folded radicle.
1835Hooker Brit. Flora 294 Thlaspi: Pouch laterally compressed, emarginate; valves winged at the back, many-seeded. Cotyledons accumbent (O= ).
B. n. One who reclines at table according to the ancient manner. Hence generally, One who is at table (without regard to posture).
1656Bp. Hall Occas. Medit. (1851) 91 What a penance must be done by every accumbent, in sitting out the passage through all these dishes. |