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resupine

resupine adjective: lying on the back; supine.

Adjective

resupine (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Lying on the back; supine.
    • a most resupine patience1628, Kenelm Digby, Journal of a Voyage Into the Mediterranean
    • He ſpake, and, dovvnvvard ſvvay'd, fell reſupine, / VVith his huge neck aſlant. All-conqu'ring ſleep / Soon ſeized him.1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book IX.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 208...

Origin of resupine

From Latin resupinus, from re- (“re-”) + supinus (“bent backward, supine”).

Questions about resupine

What does resupine mean?
Resupine means lying on the back; supine.
What part of speech is resupine?
Resupine is an adjective.

Words near resupine in the dictionary

  1. resupinated
  2. resupinately
  3. resupinates
  4. resupinating
  5. resupination
  6. resupine
  7. resupplementation
  8. resupplementations
  9. resupplemented
  10. resupplied
  11. resupplier

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