accumbent

Meanings

Adjective

  • Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
  • Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf

Noun

  • One who rests in an accumbent position, especially at table.

Origin

  • From Latin accumbō, from ad + cumbō

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