10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACCUBATION»
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There's a Word for It (Revised Edition): A Grandiloquent ...
I'm referring, of course, to the act of accubation (AK-yoo-BAY-shin). Accubation,
as all aristologists (experts in the art of dining) know, is the practice of eating or
drinking while lying down, usually on the belly or resting on one elbow, after the ...
Charles Harrington Elster, 2005
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The London encyclopaedia: or Universal dictionary of ...
ACCUBATION, ) Ad: cumbo, to lie Accuh'bent. J down to ; referring to the custom
of reclining at table, as practised by the ancients. It will appear, that accubation,
or lying down at meals, was a gesture used by very many nations. Brown's Vulgar
...
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The Popular Cyclopadia of Biblical Literature: Condensed ...
13). The accommodation theory in exegctics has been equally combated by two
classes of opponents. Those of the more ancient school con- ACCUBATION 17
sider such mode of application of the Old Testar ment passages not only as
totally ...
John Kitto, James Taylor, 1854
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Or Dictionary of Arts, ...
Account some of the Latin writers of that age, is humorously ridi- II culed by him,
in a dialogue published in 1531, entitled Osco, Accubation yolSC0^ Romanaque
Eloquentia Interlocutor ibus, Dialogus Ludis Eomanis actus. It was republished ...
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The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, ...
Accubation. A term to express the position of the ancients at table. The Greeks
and Romans used to lie down at their meals, instead of sitting as we do. After this
custom had been introduced, it was considered a mark of inferiority to sit.
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Journal of Biblical Literature
Accubation was introduced in Rome after the first Punic War (264-241 B.C.). In
Greece accubation was unknown at the time of the Homeric poems (cf. Od. i. 1 45
l$iirj'> cfoiro Kara kXht/xovs ti Opovovs ti, xv. 134 IfcttrOrjv 8' op* Inura. Kara.
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the ...
ACCUBATION. n. ,'. I from nccvbo, to lie down to, Lat.] The ancient posture of
leaning at meals. — It will appear, that accubation, or lying down at meals, was a
gesture used by very many nations. Jiro-ivn's Vulgar Erfours. Accubation, in ...
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The Popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural ...
... archæological and doctrinal themes : superbly illustrated with over 600 maps
and engravings Samuel Fallows (bp.) ACCOMMODATION 36. 35 ACCUBATION
Gen. xviii:io. cited in Gen. xix:i5, 26. " " Gen. xxi:i2. " " Gen. xxv :^2- " " Gen. xxvii.
Samuel Fallows (bp.), 1911
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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary: Illustrative of the ...
It had scarcely recovered from this calamity when it suffered another
bombardment, under Admiral Stop- ford : the explosion of a powder- magazine
destroyed the garrison and laid the town in ruins. ACCUBATION. The posture of
reclining on ...
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The cyclopædia of Biblical literature
... which we are assured that holy men of old uttered, as the spirit directed and
enabled them* (Bampton Lectures, by J. J. Convbeare, Oxford, w.w.
ACCUBATION, the posture of reclining on couches at table, which prevailed
among the Jews m ...
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