"excubation" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin excubatio, from excubare (“to lie out on guard”), from ex (“out”) + cubare (“to lie down”).",
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          "ref": "1814, John Colin Dunlop, The History of Fiction:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "Infinitely more so than the lucubrations\nIs the necessity there is for excubations.\nHard's the duty in three watches—worse watch and watch—\nExpos'd to the elements without a thatch […]",
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        "A keeping watch; a vigil."
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        "(obsolete) A keeping watch; a vigil."
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