excubation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A keeping watch; a vigil. obsolete,uncountable
    — Yseult, who was not in the secret, demanded the reason of this perpetual excubation, and was, for the first time, informed that Tristan had sent for the queen of Cornwall.

词源

From Latin excubatio, from excubare (“to lie out on guard”), from ex (“out”) + cubare (“to lie down”).
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