Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of lying down; a reclining.
- noun Same as
cubature .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of lying down; a reclining.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The act of lying down; a reclining.
Etymologies
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Latin cubatio, from cubare to lie down.
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Examples
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"Lucas," the circle-squarer, who explains how, when he was in a room with a lady and her two daughters, he perceived that "this was all that was necessary for him to attain the cubation of two pyramids," is very choice.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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