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Cumbent   Listen
adjective
Cumbent  adj.  Lying down; recumbent.






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"Cumbent" Quotes from Famous Books



... the top of his favorite summit in South Wales. It is a slight piece of work, careless and even slovenly in execution, but with an ease and lightness of touch that contrast pleasantly with Thomson's and Akenside's ponderosity. When Dyer wrote blank verse he slipped into the Thomsonian diction, "cumbent sheep" and "purple groves pomaceous." But in "Grongar Hill"—although he does call the sun Phoebus—the shorter measure seems to bring shorter words, and he has lines of ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers



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