Together his accumbent pose and closed eyes denoted sleep, as an alternative to death, which the stiff, recumbent pose of previous effigies had embodied.
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Accumbent
//əˈkʌm.bənt//
Synonyms for "accumbent" (17 found)
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4 translations across 3 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- легнал adj (leaning or reclining)
- лежащ adj (leaning or reclining)
Latin
1 entries- accumbens adj (leaning or reclining)
Portuguese
1 entries- acumbente adj ((botany) lying against something)
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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.
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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.
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Let us, indeed, see how the point of view has changed which was held in regard to those cultivated and glib accumbents who in former days were taken for real social workers.
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