Associations to the word «Decumbiture»

Wiktionary

DECUMBITURE, noun. (obsolete) The fact of lying down, specifically of a person due to illness.
DECUMBITURE, noun. (astrology) (now historical) The time one takes to one's bed during an illness, as used for astrological prognostications; or a chart drawn up to express this.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats