Humicubation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act or practice of lying on the ground. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "He is afraid, that this Doctrine of fasting, and mourning, and tears, and humicubation, and sackcloth, and ashes, pertaineth to the establishment of Romish pennance."

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"He is afraid, that this Doctrine of fasting, and mourning, and tears, and humicubation, and sackcloth, and ashes, pertaineth to the establishment of Romish pennance."

Etymology

From Latin humus (“the ground”) + cubare (“to lie down”).

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