Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of watching all night.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A keeping watch.
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- noun obsolete A
keeping watch ; avigil .
Etymologies
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Latin excubatio, from excubare to lie out on guard; ex out on guard; ex out + cubare to lie down.
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