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Definition of Resupine
1. Adjective. Lying face upward.
Definition of Resupine
1. a. Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless.
Definition of Resupine
1. Adjective. Lying on the back; supine. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Resupine
1. lying on the back [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resupine
Literary usage of Resupine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1824)
"... resupine?) about as long as the petals, attenuate and distinctly three-nerved
or ribbed along the claw, very much dilated at the summit, very obtuse, ..."
2. Flora Indica, Or, Descriptions of Indian Plants by William Roxburgh (1832)
"Flowers resupine. Legume two-seeded. A native of the Moluccas, and reared in the
Botanic garden at Calcutta from seed received from those islands in 1798. ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... once more flung resupine, lies sprawling; sprawling its last. Such was the
First of Prairial, 20th of May, 1795. ..."
4. The Bookman (1890)
"... oared their flexile way ; Some were borne half resupine On the aerial hyaline."
One is certainly tempted by fatigue, or by enjoyment, to go no further ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"... to lay one's self resupine on a grassy bank; to forget that that letter to
Smith is not yet written ; that bill of Jones's has yet to be paid; ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1837)
"... silent laid him down; Then every rower to his bench repair'd, They drew the
loosen'd cable from its hold In the drill'd rock, and resupine at once, ..."
7. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1867)
"... once more flung resupine, lies sprawling, sprawling its last. Such was the
First of Prairial, 20th of May, 1795. Second and Third of Prairial, ..."
8. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1892)
"... once more flung resupine, lies sprawling; sprawling its last. Such was the
First of Prairial, 20th of May 1795. Second and Third of Prairial, ..."
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