Word: repose Part of Speech: verb 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”). 1. Senses relating to placing or positioning. Labels: transitive Example: Now woorthy Tamburlaine, haue I repoſ'd, / In thy approoued Fortunes all my hope, / VVhat thinkſt thou man, ſhal come of our attempts? Example: 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. 2. Senses relating to placing or positioning. Labels: transitive Example: His greatest defect was the facility with which he reposed the cares of state on favorites, not always the most deserving. 3. Senses relating to placing or positioning. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: 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. Example: […] 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; […] 4. Senses relating to placing or positioning. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: […] 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. Example: [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: […] 5. Senses relating to placing or positioning. Labels: obsolete, rare, transitive Example: 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, […] 6. Senses relating to placing or positioning. Labels: obsolete, rare, transitive Example: [T]hee ſouthwynd merciles eager / Three gallant veſſels on rocks gnawne craggye repoſed. 7. Senses relating to returning. Labels: transitive 8. Senses relating to returning. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: [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. 9. Senses relating to returning. Labels: obsolete, transitive 10. Senses relating to returning. Labels: Scotland, obsolete, rare, transitive 11. Of a thing: to be in the management or power of a person or an organization. Labels: intransitive