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† recumbentibus Obs.
Also 7 -bend-.
[A humorous use of L. recumbentibus, abl. pl. of recumbens: see recumbent. With the later form cf. circumbendibus.]
A knock-down blow.
c1400Laud Troy Bk. 7490 He ȝaff the kyng Episcropus Suche a recumbentibus, He smot In-two bothe helme & mayle. 1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 70 Had you some husbande, and snapt at him thus, I wys he would geue you a recumbentibus. 1593Harvey Pierces Supererog. Wks. II. 302 Like the dowty fencer of Barnewell, that played his taking-vp with a Recumbentibus. 1675C. Cotton Scoffer Scoft Wks. (1715) 251 A good whirret Bebrix gave him,..Which Recumbendibus he got By being of an Argonaut. |