discubitory

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin discumbere, discubitum (“to lie down, recline at table”), from dis- + cumbere (“(in comparative) to lie down”).

Adjective edit

discubitory (not comparable)

(obsolete, nonce word) leaning; fitted for a reclining posture
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
  custome by degrees changed their cubiculary beds into discubitory

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “discubitory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)