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Accumbent

//əˈkʌm.bənt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.

    "Together his accumbent pose and closed eyes denoted sleep, as an alternative to death, which the stiff, recumbent pose of previous effigies had embodied."

  2. 2
    Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf

    "Distinguished from other genera, with accumbent cotyledons, in the same class and order, by the entire, nearly equal petals; and the dehiscent, nearly entirely pouch, of 2, 1- or many-seeded cells, a broad dissepiment (septum), and nearly flat valves."

Adjective
  1. 1
    lying down; in a position of comfort or rest wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    One who rests in an accumbent position, especially at table.

    "What a pennance must be done by every accumbent, in sitting out the passage through all these dishes; what a task the stomach must be put to in the concoction of so many mixtures."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin accumbō (“recline”), from ad- (“to”) + *cumbō (“recline”).

Etymology 2

From Latin accumbō (“recline”), from ad- (“to”) + *cumbō (“recline”).

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