repose

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   freedom from activity, especially work, strain or responsibility

   They took their repose by the swimming pool.

2. 2
   verb

   put or confide something in a person or thing

   These philosophers reposed the law in the people

3. 3
   verb

   to put something (eg trust) in something

   The nation reposed its confidence in the King

4. 4
   verb

   lie when dead

   Our grandparents repose in a mausoleum.

5. 5
   verb

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

   The Sea-god Glaucus […] Repoſd his head vpon my faintfull knée: […]

6. 6
   verb

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

   Now may I repoſe me; Cuſtance is mine owne.

7. 7
   verb

   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.

8. 8
   verb

   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?

Etymology

The verb is derived from Middle English reposen (“to rest”), from Anglo-Norman reposer, reposir, and Middle French reposer, from Old French reposer, repauser (“to become calm; to be peaceful; to rest; to be immobile; to lie or be placed; to cease, stop; to neglect”) (modern French reposer), from Latin repausāre, the present active infinitive of repausō (“(Late Latin) to be at rest; to lie down, rest; to sleep; to calm, pacify; (Latin) to halt temporarily, pause”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again; back, backwards’) + pausō (“to cease, halt; to pause”) (from pausa (“a halt, stop; a pause; an end…