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Definition of Repose

1. Verb. Put or confide something in a person or thing. "These philosophers reposed the law in the people"

2. Noun. Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility). "Took his repose by the swimming pool"

3. Verb. Be inherent or innate in.

4. Noun. The absence of mental stress or anxiety.

5. Verb. Lie when dead. "Mao reposes in his mausoleum"

6. Noun. A disposition free from stress or emotion.

7. Verb. Lean in a comfortable resting position. "There repose some children in the rocking chair"; "He was reposing on the couch"

8. Verb. Put in a horizontal position. "Lay the patient carefully onto the bed"

9. Verb. To put something (eg trust) in something. "The nation reposed its confidence in the King"

Definition of Repose

1. v. t. To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit.

2. v. i. To lie at rest; to rest.

3. n. A lying at rest; sleep; rest; quiet.

Definition of Repose

1. Noun. (dated) rest, sleep ¹

2. Noun. quietness, ease; peace, calmness ¹

3. Noun. (context: geology) period between eruptions of a volcano. ¹

4. Verb. To lay, to set down. ¹

5. Verb. To confide or entrust to someone. ¹

6. Verb. To reside in something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Repose

1. to lie at rest [v -POSED, -POSING, -POSES]

Medical Definition of Repose

1. 1. A lying at rest; sleep; rest; quiet. "Shake off the golden slumber of repose." (Shak) 2. Rest of mind; tranquillity; freedom from uneasiness; also, a composed manner or deportment. 3. A rest; a pause. 4. That harmony or moderation which affords rest for the eue; opposed to the scattering and division of a subject into too many unconnected parts, and also to anything which is overstrained; as, a painting may want repose. Angle of repose, the inclination of a plane at which a body placed on the plane would remain at rest, or if in motion would roll or side down with uniform velocity; the angle at which the various kinds of earth will stand when abandoned to themselves. Synonym: Rest, recumbency, reclination, ease, quiet, quietness, tranquillity, peace. Origin: F. Repos. See Repose. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Repose

reporting weight reportingly reportor reportorial reportorially reportour reports repos reposado reposados

reposal reposall reposalls reposals reposance repose (current term) repose on reposed reposedly reposeful

reposefully reposefulness reposefulnesses reposer reposers reposes reposest reposeth reposing reposit

Literary usage of Repose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"Perfect repose of body and mind being to the last degree important in his case, ... repose by remaining in the house under circumstances of an essentially ..."

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