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Fill :: Fill (a.) To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair..

Up :: Up (adv.) From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or implied..

Accumbency :: Accumbency (n.) The state of being accumbent or reclining.

Void :: Void (a.) Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like.

Avoidance :: Avoidance (n.) The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent..

Accumbent :: Accumbent (a.) Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals..

Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.

Decumbent :: Decumbent (a.) Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.

Vacant :: Vacant (a.) Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; as, a vacant throne; a vacant parish..

Recumbent :: Recumbent (a.) Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle..

Accumbent :: Accumbent (a.) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf..

Incumbency :: Incumbency (n.) That which is physically incumbent; that which lies as a burden; a weight.

Dilapidation :: Dilapidation (n.) Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention..

Creep :: Creep (n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground..

Lintel :: Lintel (n.) A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture..

Crush :: Crush (v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight..

Portionist :: Portionist (n.) One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars.

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse..

Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

Insistent :: Insistent (a.) See Incumbent.

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