Decumbiture

Decumbiture
Decumbiture De*cum"bi*ture (?; 135), n. 1. Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]

2. (Astrol.) Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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