Decumbiture

1. n. Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one’s sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.
2. n. Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one’s bed from sickness.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.