repose

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

• 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.

To rest (oneself), especially by going to sleep.archaicreflexivetransitive

• 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: […]

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.archaicreflexivetransitive

• [A]lthough they ſeme as holidaymenne, to repoſe theymſelfes from all corporall buſineſſe: yet they dooe more good then the others, becauſe they doe the thyng moſt chiefly requiſite to be doen.
• [S]he begged I vvould retire into a chamber, and repoſe myſelf from the uncommon fatigues I muſt have undergone; […]

To give (someone) rest; to refresh (someone) by giving rest.alsofigurativelyobsolete

• [H]ave ye chos'n this place / After the toyl of Battel to repoſe / Your wearied vertue, for the eaſe you find / To ſlumber here, as in the Vales of Heav'n?
• VVhoſe Cauſe-vvay parts the vale vvith ſhady rovvs? / VVhoſe ſeats the vveary Traveller repoſe? / VVho feeds yon Alms-houſe, neat, but void of ſtate, / VVhere Age and VVant ſit ſmiling at the gate?

To cause (oneself) to have faith in or rely on someone or something.obsoletereflexivetransitive

• That he conſents, if VVarvvicke yeeld conſent, / For on thy fortune I repoſe my ſelfe.
• I come to your houſe; I riſk my life; I paſs it in ennui; I repoſe myſelf on your fidelity; […]

To give (someone) accommodation for the night.obsoleteraretransitive

To lean or recline, sit down, or lie down to rest; to rest.alsofigurativelyintransitive

• If you be pleas'd, retire into my Cell, / And there repoſe, a turne or tvvo, […]
• [H]is right Cheeke / Repoſing on a Cuſhion.

To lean or recline, sit down, or lie down to rest; to rest.; To die, to rest in peace.alsofigurativelyintransitive

• Simon reposed in the year 1287.

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.intransitive

• a trap reposing on sand

Followed by on or upon: of light, a look, etc.: to fall or rest (and often remain for a while) on something; to alight, to dwell.intransitive

• [T]he grate did then unclose, / And on that reverend form the moonlight did repose.
• For on such things the memory reposes / With tenderness,— […]

Temporary cessation from activity to rest and recover, especially in the form of sleep; rest; (countable) an instance of this; a break, a rest; a sleep.uncountable

• So forth ſhe rode vvithout repoſe or reſt, / Searching all lands and each remoteſt part, […]
• Content thee Cytherea [i.e., Aphrodite] in thy care, / Since thy Æneas vvandring fate is firme, / VVhoſe vvearie lims ſhall ſhortly make repoſe, / In thoſe faire vvalles I promiſt him of yore: […]

Temporary cessation from activity to rest and recover, especially in the form of sleep; rest; (countable) an instance of this; a break, a rest; a sleep.; Of the Virgin Mary: death; also assumption into heaven.broadlyuncountable

Temporary cessation from activity to rest and recover, especially in the form of sleep; rest; (countable) an instance of this; a break, a rest; a sleep.; The festival honouring the assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on August 15.broadlycountable

The state of being peacefully inactive or relaxed, or being free from disturbances or worries; calmness, ease, peace, quietness.uncountable

• [T]he Felicity of this life, conſiſteth not in the repoſe of a mind ſatisfied.
• […] I am diverted from that subject by letters which I have received from several ladies, complaining of a certain sect of professed enemies to the repose of the fair sex, called Oglers.

Calmness of the mind or temperament; composure.uncountable

• But lord! she goes with so blithe a repose, / And comes so shapely about you, / That ere you're aware, with a glance and an air, / She whisks your heart from out you.
• She had the passions of her kind, / She spake some certain truths of you. / Indeed I heard one bitter word / That scarce is fit for you to hear. / Her manners had not that repose / Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere.

Of the face, a muscle, etc.: the state of being relaxed and not in tension.uncountable

• In repose the faces of the men were intelligent and dignified, those of the women ofttimes prepossessing.
• He has a handsome face, mind you, in repose.

The state of lying still and unmoving; calmness, tranquillity; (countable) an instance of this.uncountable

• But o'er the tvvilight groves, and dusky caves, / Long-ſounding iſles, and intermingled graves, / Black Melancholy ſits, and round her throvvs / A death-like ſilence, and a dread repose: […]
• [H]e arose, / Ethereal, flush'd, and like a throbbing star / Seen mid the sapphire heaven's deep repose; […]

Relief or respite from something exhausting or unpleasant; (countable) an instance of this.archaicuncountable

• O Sole in whom my thoughts find all repoſe, / My Glorie, my Perfection, glad I ſee / Thy face, […]
• I vvho lately ſang / Truth, Hope and Charity, and touch'd vvith avve / The ſolemn chords, and vvith a trembling hand, / Eſcap'd vvith pain from that advent'rous flight, / Novv ſeek repoſe upon an humbler theme; […]

Confidence, faith, or trust in something.archaicuncountable

The arrangement of elements of an artwork, a building, etc., that is restful and soothing to a viewer; harmony.uncountable

• VVe are to take occaſion as much as poſſibly vve can, […] to find the repoſe of vvhich vve ſpeak, by the Light and by the Shadovv, vvhich naturally accompany ſolid Bodies.

Senses relating to placing or positioning.; To place (confidence, faith, or trust) in someone or something.transitive

• Now woorthy Tamburlaine, haue I repoſ'd, / In thy approoued Fortunes all my hope, / VVhat thinkſt thou man, ſhal come of our attempts?
• Stay yet another day, thou truſtie VVelchman. / The king repoſeth all his confidence in thee.

Senses relating to placing or positioning.; Followed by in: to entrust (duty, power, etc.) in someone; to confide.transitive

• His greatest defect was the facility with which he reposed the cares of state on favorites, not always the most deserving.

Senses relating to placing or positioning.; To place (something), especially for safekeeping or storage; to deposit, to keep safe, to store.archaictransitive

• […] 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; […]
• But these thy fortunes let us straight repose / In this divine cave's bosom, that may close / Reserve their value; […]

Senses relating to placing or positioning.; To regard (something) as being embodied in another thing; to ascribe, to attribute.obsoletetransitive

• [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: […]

Senses relating to placing or positioning.; To establish or institute (something); to found.obsoleteraretransitive

• 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, […]

Senses relating to placing or positioning.; To throw (something); to cast.obsoleteraretransitive

• [T]hee ſouthwynd merciles eager / Three gallant veſſels on rocks gnawne craggye repoſed.

Senses relating to returning.; To put (a body part) back in its usual location; to reposition.transitive

Senses relating to returning.; To forcefully restrain (something); to repress, to suppress.obsoletetransitive

• [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 co

Senses relating to returning.; To return (something) to a particular place; to put back, to replace.obsoletetransitive

Senses relating to returning.; To restore (someone) to a position or rank formerly held; to reinstate.Scotlandobsoleterare

To pose (oneself or someone, or something) again.reflexivetransitive