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Decumbiture   Listen
noun
Decumbiture  n.  
1.
Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness.
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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"Decumbiture" Quotes from Famous Books



... Semiatica uranica, his Astrological judgement of Diseases from the decumbiture of the sick, much enlarged: the way and manner of finding out the cause, change, and end of the Disease; also whether the sick be likely to live or dye, & the time when recovery or death is to be expected, according to the judgement of Hipocrates, and Hermes ...
— The Compleat Cook • Anonymous, given as "W. M."



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