repose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpəʊz/
enpr: rĭ-pōzʹ
ipa: /ɹəˈpoʊz/
ipa: /ɹi-/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: reposes
form: reposing
form: reposed
form: reposed
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: repose
form: repose
form: reposed
form: repose
form: reposest
form: reposed
form: reposedst
form: reposes
form: reposeth
form: reposed
form: repose
form: reposed
form: repose
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form: repose
form: -
form: reposing
form: reposed
Etymology: From Middle English reposen (“to put (something) back, replace”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again; back, backwards’) + posen (“to place (something)”), modelled after Latin repōnō (“to put back; to restore; to store”). Posen is derived from Old French poser (“to place, put”) (modern French poser), from Vulgar Latin pausāre, from Latin pausāre, the present active infinitive of pausō (see further at etymology 1), influenced by pōnere, the present active infinitive of pōnō (“to lay, place, put”).
Senses: examples: text: Now woorthy Tamburlaine, haue I repoſ'd, / In thy approoued Fortunes all my hope, / VVhat thinkſt thou man, ſhal come of our attempts?
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:
text: Long thus I ioyed in my happineſſe, / And vvell did hope my ioy vvoud haue no end: / But oh fond man, that in vvorlds fickleneſſe / Repoſeſt hope, or vveenedſt her thy frend, / That glories moſt in mortall miſeries, / And daylie doth her changefull counſels bend: / To make nevv matter fit for Tragedies.
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard,Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier. […], London: […] [Thomas Orwin] for William Ponsonby, […], →OCLC, signature B, verso:
text: Stay yet another day, thou truſtie VVelchman. / The king repoſeth all his confidence in thee.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], signature E3, verso:
text: In reuerence therefore of the hopes vvhich the Grecians haue repoſed in you, and of the preſence of Iupiter Olympius, in vvhoſe Temple here, vve are in a manner ſuppliants to you, receiue the Mitylenians into league, and ayde vs.
ref: 1629, Thucydides, “The First Booke”, in Thomas Hobbes, transl., Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre […], London: […] Hen[ry] Seile, […], →OCLC, page 52:
text: [T]here is something to be considered beyond forms of government—national character. And herein mainly should we repose our hopes. If a nation be led to aim at the good and the great, depend upon it, whatever be its form, the government will respond to its convictions and its sentiments.
ref: 1844, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter II, in Coningsby; or, The New Generation. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book VII, page 100:
glosses: Senses relating to placing or positioning.
To place (confidence, faith, or trust) in someone or something.
examples: text: His greatest defect was the facility with which he reposed the cares of state on favorites, not always the most deserving.
ref: 1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, “Conquest of Navarre. 1512–1513.”, in History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volume III, Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell, →OCLC, 2nd part (1493–1517), page 354:
glosses: Senses relating to placing or positioning.
Followed by in: to entrust (duty, power, etc.) in someone; to confide.
qualifier: chiefly passive voice
examples: text: When Christ affirmeth, that "where a mans treasure is, there is his heart:" by treasure, he meaneth not the possession of riches simply, but hee meaneth that, wherein a man reposeth his chiefe treasure and felicitie to consist. […] He that reposeth his felicitie in building, giueth ouer his cogitations vnto that.
ref: 1589, Thomas Cooper, “Proofes out of the Newe Testament against the Rich Liuings of Bishops”, in An Admonition to the People of England: Against Martin Mar-Prelate, London: John Petheram, […], published 1847, →OCLC, page 171:
text: […] Libraries, […] are as the Shrynes, vvhere all the Reliques of the ancient Saints, full of true vertue, and that vvithout deluſion or impoſture, are preſerued, and repoſed; […]
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 2, verso:
text: But these thy fortunes let us straight repose / In this divine cave's bosom, that may close / Reserve their value; […]
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “The Thirteenth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume II, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC, page 19, lines 545–547:
text: The sword was now brandished, not to be sheathed or reposed, until the one party or the other should be irretrievably defeated.
ref: 1827, [Walter Scott], chapter V, in The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. […], volume VIII, Edinburgh: […] Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, […]; and Cadell & Co., […], →OCLC, page 113:
glosses: Senses relating to placing or positioning.
To place (something), especially for safekeeping or storage; to deposit, to keep safe, to store.
examples: text: […] Paule ſayth that the widowes which hauing ben ones receiued into the Publike miniſterie did marrye, denyed their firſt fayth. But I doe not denie to them, that the widowes, whiche bounde themſelues and their ſeruices to the Chirch, did therewithall take vpon them the bonde of cõtinuall vnmaried life: not becauſe they repoſed any religion therin as it afterward began to be vſed: but becauſe they could not beare that office but beeing at their own libertie and looſe from yoke of mariage.
ref: 1561 May 16 (Gregorian calendar), Ihon Caluin [i.e., John Calvin], “Of Vowes, by Rash Promising wherof Eche Man hath Miserably Entangled Himselfe”, in [Thomas Norton], transl., The Institution of Christian Religion, […], London: […] Reinolde [i.e., Reginald?] Wolfe & Richarde Harison, →OCLC, 4th book, folio 89, recto:
text: [A] certaine Bonzi, […] did giue them a certaine booke to kiſſe, and laid it on their heads, vvherein they repoſed much holiness, and vvorſhipped it as a god: […]
ref: 1614, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] A Continuation of the Former Discourse Touching the Religions of Iapon.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], 2nd edition, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book V (Of the East-Indies, and of the Seas and Ilands about Asia, with Their Religions), page 529:
glosses: Senses relating to placing or positioning.
To regard (something) as being embodied in another thing; to ascribe, to attribute.
examples: text: A long buylt citty there ſtood, Carthago ſo named, / From the mouth of Tybris, from land eke of Italie ſeauer'd, / Poſſeſt wyth Tyrians, in ſtrength and riches abounding, / There Iuno the princes her empyre wholye repoſed, […]
ref: 1582, Virgil, “The Firste Booke of Virgil His Aeneis”, in Richard Stanyhurst, transl., The First Foure Bookes of Virgils Æneis, […], London: […] Henrie Bynneman […], published 1583, →OCLC; republished as The First Four Books of the Æneid of Virgil, […], Edinburgh: [Edinburgh Printing Company], 1836, →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: Senses relating to placing or positioning.
To establish or institute (something); to found.
examples: text: [T]hee ſouthwynd merciles eager / Three gallant veſſels on rocks gnawne craggye repoſed.
ref: 1582, Virgil, “The Firste Booke of Virgil His Aeneis”, in Richard Stanyhurst, transl., The First Foure Bookes of Virgils Æneis, […], London: […] Henrie Bynneman […], published 1583, →OCLC; republished as The First Four Books of the Æneid of Virgil, […], Edinburgh: [Edinburgh Printing Company], 1836, →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: Senses relating to placing or positioning.
To throw (something); to cast.
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glosses: Senses relating to returning.
To put (a body part) back in its usual location; to reposition.
examples: text: [A] multitude of common People gather'd together in Bands that very Sunday-morning, all armed vvith a full and furious purpoſe to repoſe the Inſolence and Pride of the Nobility, vvho had reduced the common people to ſuch a paſs that they could hardly live by them.
ref: 1652, Alexander Giraffi [i.e., Alessandro Giraffi], “A Compendium of the Sublevations and Turmoils which Happen’d in the City, and among the People of Cosenza”, in James Howell, transl., An Exact History of the Late Revolutions in Naples; […], revised edition, London: […] R[ichard] Lowndes […], published 1663, →OCLC, part II (The Second Part of Massaniello, […]), page 26:
glosses: Senses relating to returning.
To forcefully restrain (something); to repress, to suppress.
glosses: Senses relating to returning.
To return (something) to a particular place; to put back, to replace.
glosses: Senses relating to returning.
To restore (someone) to a position or rank formerly held; to reinstate.
glosses: Of a thing: to be in the management or power of a person or an organization.
Derived terms: english: partly
translation: partly
word: reappose
word: reposal
word: reposed
word: reposeful
word: reposefully
word: reposefulness
word: reposement
word: reposer
word: reposing
word: reposure