decumbiture

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decumbiture - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Decumbiture \De*cum"bi*ture\ (?; 135), n.
     1. Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed
        from sickness. --Boyle.
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     2. (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.
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