Sekirov Dictionary

accumbent

/əˈkʌm.bənt/

adjective 2
noun 1
forms 3

adjective2

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Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
- Together his accumbent pose and closed eyes denoted sleep, as an alternative to death, which the stiff, recumbent pose of previous effigies had embodied. — 1998
Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf

noun1

•
One who rests in an accumbent position, especially at table.
- What a pennance must be done by every accumbent, in sitting out the passage through all these dishes; what a task the stomach must be put to in the concoction of so many mixtures. — 1630

forms

accumbents · more accumbent · most accumbent

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