单词 | accubation |
释义 | accubationn. 1. The action or practice of reclining, esp. at a table when dining; a reclining posture. Now rare.Particularly associated with the ancient Greeks and Romans, who dined reclining on couches; cf. triclinium n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > [noun] > at table accubation1612 accumbing1646 accumbency1658 1612 J. Gordon Εἰρηνοκοινωνία sig. D4v That the gesture of Accubation was vsed in this Feast, it is cleare by the words of Theodoretus: where hee saith, that in the first day of this Feast, the Priests Sonne, standing nigh the Emperours bed, did sprinckle ouer all the meate, with this Holy-water. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 241 Accubation, or lying downe at meales was a gesture used by very many nations. View more context for this quotation 1656 A. Cowley Davideis ii. 71 (note) in Poems The words of Session and Accubation are often confounded, both being in practice at several times, and in several Nations. 1786 D. Levi Lingua Sacra I. ii. sig. Kkkkv Accubation: i.e. A posture of the body, between sitting and lying. 1855 Househ. Words 11 239/2 Great feasts were held, when the guests in postures of graceful accubation made themselves sick with those..dishes which were the glory of Roman cookery. 1895 E. Braddon Thirty Years Shikar iv. 86 The charpoys ranged round the table, served for our sitting accommodation at meals, suggesting further classical associations and accubation rather than comfort. 1921 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 42 165 Accubation, which was derived from the East, was introduced in Rome after the first Punic War. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] childbeda1200 bend1297 gesinea1400 lying-inc1440 labour1472 down-lying1561 groaning1579 groaning-time1579 partion1656 crying out1692 accouchement1730 inlying1734 confinement1774 accubation1853 1853 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 9/1 Accubation, a term for the act or state of reclining, or lying down; also, for being in child-bed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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