repose

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French reposer, from Late Latin repausāre (“to lay at rest, quiet, also nourish, intransitive to be at rest, rest, repose”), from Latin re- (“again”) + pausare (“to pause, rest”), from pausa (“pause”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpoʊz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpəʊz/
• Hyphenation: re‧pose

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• Rhymes: -əʊz

repose (countable and uncountable, plural reposes)

1. (dated) rest, sleep
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     Dark and deserted as it was, the night was full of small noises, song and chatter and rustling, telling of the busy little population who were up and about, plying their trades and vocations through the night till sunshine should fall on them at last and send them off to their well-earned repose.

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

     You would not rob us of our repose, would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties?

2. quietness, ease; peace, calmness
   • Dante Divine Comedy,Inferno, Canto 10

     So may thy lineage find at last repose I thus adjured him

3. (geology) period between eruptions of a volcano.

• See also Thesaurus:calmness

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

1. To lie at rest; to rest.
   • Chapman

     Within a thicket I reposed.

2. To lie; to be supported.

   trap reposing on sand

3. To lay, to set down.
   • Chapman

     But these thy fortunes let us straight repose / In this divine cave's bosom.

   • Woodward

     Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth […] are left behind.

4. To place, have, or rest; to set; to entrust.
   • Shakespeare

     The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.

5. To reside in something.
6. (figuratively) To remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.
   • I. Taylor

     It is upon these that the soul may repose.

7. To die
   • Eastern Orthodox Church, used particularly of the death of saints.

     Simon reposed in the year 1287.

• repose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• repose in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• repose at OneLook Dictionary Search

repose

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of reposar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of reposar

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pɔz/

repose

1. first-person singular present indicative of reposer
2. third-person singular present indicative of reposer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of reposer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of reposer
5. second-person singular imperative of reposer

• repos

• opères, opérés

repose

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of reposar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of reposar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of reposar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of reposar.