discubitory

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

discubitory (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, rare) leaning; fitted for a reclining posture
   • 1641, Edward Kellett, chapter 20, in Tricoenivm Christi in nocte proditionis suæ: The threefold svpper of Christ in the night that he vvas betrayed, london:

     […] for Lucullus his discubitory beds were adorned with purple; and himselfe served in dishes of gold and silver […]

   • 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

   • 1836, John Dymock, LL.D., A new abridgment of Ainsworth's dictionary, English and Latin, for the use of grammar schools‎^[1], Philadelphia: Alexander Towar, and Carey, Lea & Blanchard, page 144:

     Hexaclīnon, i. n. a dining room holding six discubitory couches.

References

• “discubitory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.