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Incumbent :: Incumbent (a.) Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent.

Incumbent :: Incumbent (n.) A person who is in present possession of a benefice or of any office.

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

Insistent :: Insistent (a.) See Incumbent.

Residence :: Residence (n.) The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence.

Bed :: Bed (v. t.) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.

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

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

Incumbently :: Incumbently (adv.) In an incumbent manner; so as to be incumbent.

Decumbently :: Decumbently (adv.) In a decumbent posture.

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..

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

Incumbent :: Incumbent (a.) Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them..

Procumbent :: Procumbent (a.) Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem..

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

Humifuse :: Humifuse (a.) Spread over the surface of the ground; procumbent.

Decumbent :: Decumbent (a.) Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem..

Superincumbent :: Superincumbency (n.) The quality or state of being superincumbent.

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

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..

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