decubare

decubare [LL] 1 to lie down. b to lie (in sick-bed or child-bed). V. et. decumbere. flectentes genua proni in terram ~ate (Sermo) Osb. Bawdsey clxxiv.  b languorem simulans leo decubat Walt. Angl. (ed. 1894) app. II 6. 1; s1216 rex ‥ in castro ‥ ~ans graviter infirmatus est B. Cotton 104; 1243 fratres domus nostre et infirmi ibidem ~antes Ch. Sal. 286; s1301 [Scoti] mulieres in puerperio ~antes ‥ trucidarunt W. Guisb. 343; 1415 lego xx pauperibus ~antibus, A. bedredyn Reg. Cant. II 52; lyyn yn or in chyldebedde, ~o PP; to ly in chilbed, decumbere, †~ere ‥, to lygg seke, ~are, decumbere CathA. 2 (trans.) to establish firmly. principes nostri ‥ castris delimitandis et ~andis insistunt et aggerem ‥ muniendis tentoriis circumducunt Itin. Ric. I 31.