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Discubitory. Dis*cu"bi*to*ry\, a. [L. discumbere, discubitum, to lie down, recline at table; dis- + cumbere (in comp.) to lie down. ...
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to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. ... He discriminates in favor of his relatives. ... to note or observe a difference;
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... and so that custom by degrees changed their cubiculary beds into discubitory, and introduced a fashion to go from the bathes unto these. ...
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Discursive: words in the definition ... (a.) Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative. ... (a.) Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
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Distinction made (social, economic, political, or legal) between individuals or groups such that one has the power to treat the other unfavourably. Negative discrimination, often based on stereotype, ... Positive discrimination, or affirmative action, ... Discrimination may be on grounds of difference of colour, nationality,
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Dining bed, or discubitory bed, among the ancients, a bed on which persons lay at meals. It was four or five feet high, and would hold three or four persons. Three of these beds were ranged by a square table, one side of the table being left open, and accessible to the waiters.
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