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Webster 1913 Edition
Decumbiture
De-cum′bi-ture
(?; 135)
, Noun.
1.
Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one’s bed from sickness.
Boyle.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Decumbiture
DECUMBITURE
, n.1.
The time at which a person takes to his bed in a disease.2.
In astrology, the scheme or aspect of the heavens, by which the prognostics of recovery or death are discovered.