reposed

Verb

repose (third-person singular simple present reposes, present participle reposing, simple past and past participle reposed)

1. (also, archaic, figuratively, transitive) To lay (someone, or part of their body) down to rest.
   • The Sea-god Glaucus […] Repoſd his head vpon my faintfull knée: […]1589, Thomas Lodge, “The Most Pithie and Pleasant Historie of Glaucus and Silla”, in Scillaes Metamorphosis: Enterlaced with the Unfortunate Loue of Glaucus. […], London: […] Richard Jhones, […]...
2. (archaic, reflexive, transitive) To rest (oneself), especially by going to sleep.
   • Now may I repoſe me; Cuſtance is mine owne.c. 1552 (date written), Nicholas Udall, [Ralph Roister Doister], [London]: [s.n.], published 1566?; republished as Edward Arber, editor, Roister Doister. […] (English Reprints), London: Muir &...
3. (archaic, reflexive, transitive) 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.
   • [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.1549 February 10 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1548), Erasmus, “The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Ghospell of S. Luke. The .x. Chapter.”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., The...
4. (also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To give (someone) rest; to refresh (someone) by giving rest.
   • [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?1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
5. (obsolete, reflexive, transitive) To cause (oneself) to have faith in or rely on someone or something.
   • That he conſents, if VVarvvicke yeeld conſent, / For on thy fortune I repoſe my ſelfe.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
6. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To give (someone) accommodation for the night.

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