recumbency

"All right," he said, and rose slowly from sprawling recumbency to his feet.

From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic

Dependency and recumbency upon the Lord by faith, for strength to perform covenant engagements, is requisite to right covenanting, Isa. xxvii.

From The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant With the Acknowledgment of Sins and Engagement to Duties, as They Were Renewed at Auchensaugh, Near Douglas, July 24, 1712. (Compared With the Editions of Paisley, 1820, and Belfast, 1835.) Also, The Renovation of These Public Federal Deeds Ordained at Philadelphia, October 8, 1880, by the Reformed Presbytery, with Accommodation of the Original Covenants, in Both Transactions, to Their Times and Positions Respectively by The Reformed Presbytery

As to enforced recumbency I doubt the propriety of insisting on it in the majority of cases, for I think the patient usually assumes whatever position gives most comfort.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener

In attempting to assume the perpendicular, Mr. Brown Bunkem was signally frustrated, as the result was a more perfect development of his original horizontal recumbency, assumed at the conclusion of a very vigorous fall.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 by Various

The standing position is not often maintained, the patient seeking relief in recumbency.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener