decumbency

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English

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈkʌmbənsi/, /dɪˈkʊmbənsi/

Noun

decumbency (uncountable)

decumbence
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
  the ancient manner of decumbency

References

Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 114

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