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tresayle
pauciloquy
recumbentibus


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PRONUNCIATION:

(ri-kuhm-BEN-ti-buhs)

MEANING:

noun: A knockdown blow.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin recumbere (recline, lie down again), from re- (back) + cumbere (to lie down), which also gave us incumbent, procumbent, and superincumbent. Earliest documented use: 1425.

USAGE:

“Thor went among them with incalescent eagerness, smashing their guidance systems with his bare fingers, delivering one massive recumbentibus after another, making shards of the casings.”
Eoin Colfer; And Another Thing...; Hyperion; 2009.

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