Meaning of humicubation | Babel Free

Definitions

The act or practice of lying on the ground.

countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“He is afraid, that this Doctrine of fasting, and mourning, and tears, and humicubation, and sackcloth, and ashes, pertaineth to the establishment of Romish pennance.”

“The χαμολνία, Humicubation, lying upon ground, &c. which things have been overacted, and still are in the Greek and Roman Churches.”

“For humicubation we have David's example, ‘And David fasted a fast, and went in and lay all night upon the earth.’”

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