单词 | decumbiture |
释义 | decumbituren. ? Obsolete. 1. Lying down; spec. as an invalid in bed. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > [noun] lairc893 lying?c1225 reclination1556 discubation1641 discumbing1641 decumbence1646 decumbency1646 discumbency1646 recubation1646 recumbency1646 discumbiture1655 discubiture1656 discumbence1656 decubation1664 decumbiture1670 recumbence1670 decubitus1879 1670 E. Maynwaring Vita Sana & Longa (new ed.) viii. 94 As for the manner of decumbiture, the body must lie easie. 1681 G. Wharton Crises Dis. in Wks. (1683) 115 The time when the Sick-party takes his Bed, is the beginning of his Decumbiture. 1744 H. Ettrick in Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 565 The Band..is to be kept on, the whole Time of Decumbiture. 2. a. The act or time of taking to one's bed in an illness. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > taking to bed decumbiture1647 decumbency1651 1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. xliv. 255 At the hour of Birth, at time of Decumbiture of the sick. 1671 J. Blagrave Astrol. Pract. Physick 23 The Moon being returned unto the place she was in at the decumbiture. 1707 J. Frazer Disc. Second Sight 4 The boy died..the eleventh night from his decumbiture. b. Astrology. A figure erected for the time at which this happens, and affording prognostics of recovery or death. ΚΠ 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 118 The Planetary Hour must first be known: And lucky moment; if her Eye but akes Or itches, its Decumbiture she takes. 1819 J. Wilson Compl. Dict. Astrol. Decumbiture, a horary question or figure, erected for a sick person. It should be made to the time when the patient first perceives his disease. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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