单词 | unrecumbent |
释义 | † unrecumbentadj. Obsolete. rare. Not recumbent; not lying down. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > [adjective] > not lying or reclining unreclining1777 unrecumbent1785 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 29 The cattle..seem half petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness. a1801 J. Hurdis Poems (1808) III. 72 The vex'd herd Of milch-kine slumber in yon elm-grove shade, Or unrecumbent exercise the cud With milky mouths. a1889 M. Smith Misc. Poems (1892) 220 Here, unrecumbent, as the fact appears, Men bore incessant torture months and years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.1785 |
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