Repose

/ɹɪˈpəʊz/ · verb

Meaning

To lay (someone, or part of their body) down to rest..

Definitions by Sense

1. To lay (someone, or part of their body) down to rest.
2. To rest (oneself), especially by going to sleep.
3. Followed by from or (obsolete) of: to cause (oneself) to take a rest from some activity; also, to allow (oneself) to recover from some activity.
4. To give (someone) rest; to refresh (someone) by giving rest.
5. To cause (oneself) to have faith in or rely on someone or something.
6. To give (someone) accommodation for the night.
7. To lean or recline, sit down, or lie down to rest; to rest.
8. Followed by on or upon: of a thing: to lie or be physically positioned on something, especially horizontally; to rest on or be supported by something.

Example Sentences

The Sea-god Glaucus […] Repoſd his head vpon my faintfull knée: […]

I could mock the ſultry Toil, / VVhen on my Charmer's Breaſt repos'd.

VVha's ain dear laſs, that he likes beſt, / Comes clinkin dovvn beſide him! / VVi' arm repos'd on the chair-back, / He ſvveetly does compoſe him; […]

A hundred times hast thou said, when, wearied with thy labours and oppressed by thy troubles, thou reposedst thy head familiarly on my breast, 'Would that I could die in this bosom!'

[T]he eyes clos'd— / The lashes on the cheeks repos'd.

Mrs. Peters reposed her 200 pounds on the safer of the two chairs and gazed stolidly out the one window at the brick wall opposite.

Now may I repoſe me; Cuſtance is mine owne.

In peace and honour reſt you here my ſonnes, / Roomes readieſt Champions, repoſe you here in reſt, / Secure from vvorldly chaunces and miſhaps: […]

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