Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The time at which a sick person takes to his bed, or during which he is confined to it by disease.
- noun In astrology, the figure of the heavens erected for the time of a person's first taking to his bed from illness. Prognostics of recovery or death were derived from this figure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness.
- noun (Astrol.) Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A lying-down of a person due to illness.
- noun astrology A branch of astrology dealing with diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of an illness based on the astrological conditions at the onset of the illness.
- noun astrology An astrological chart cast for the first day of an illness.
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Examples
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Called decumbiture charts, such were believed to indicate both the cause of the illness and whether or not the patient would recover.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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Called decumbiture charts, such were believed to indicate both the cause of the illness and whether or not the patient would recover.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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Called decumbiture charts, such were believed to indicate both the cause of the illness and whether or not the patient would recover.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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Called decumbiture charts, such were believed to indicate both the cause of the illness and whether or not the patient would recover.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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Men like Galen did not follow decumbiture or astrological methods of diagnosis; however, he was an excellent herbalist.
Plutocracy and America-How Corporate Welfare is Destroying America 2009
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I scarcely know whether The Fighting Sheeney made more of a nuisance of himself during his decumbiture or during the period which followed it -- which period houses an astonishing number of fights, rows, bullyings, etc.
The Enormous Room 1928
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And lucky moment; if her eye but akes Or itches, its decumbiture fhe takes.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
qms commented on the word decumbiture
Grave illness affrights, to be sure
But the stoic shows no discomfiture,
He calmly awaits
The word of the fates
On the outcome of his decumbiture.
January 21, 2015