Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Exhibiting repose; calm; settled.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Composed; calm; tranquil; at rest.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of repose.
  • adjective calm and tranquil; at rest

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Examples

  • She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Gharib, after giving robes of honour to the citizens of Cufa and com mending the Ryots to their care, went out on a day of the days to hunt, with an hundred horse, and fared on till he came to a Wady, abounding in trees and fruits and rich in rills and birds It was a pasturing-place for roes and gazelles, to the spirit a delight whose scents reposed from the langour of fight.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The broadsword reposed calmly on a desk under the nose of a properly impressed young person named Stokes, cashier.

    Truxton King A Story of Graustark George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • When the FDIC acquires a failed bank, it often makes assets such as reposed properties and some mortgage notes available for sale.

    South Florida Business News - Local South Florida News | The South Florida Business Journal 2009

  • The two boys were blind, also, to the manifold glories of Mirror Lake which reposed at their very feet.

    DUTCH COURAGE 2010

  • Beginning where they had left off, drilling and climbing for a week, he had at last set foot upon that awful summit and gazed down into the depths where Mirror Lake reposed, nearly a mile beneath.

    DUTCH COURAGE 2010

  • Union Club, where, for another hour, they gravely discussed the future of Young Dick Forrest and pledged themselves anew to the faith reposed in them by Lucky

    CHAPTER IV 2010

  • Not in him, but in me were reposed the sealed orders.

    CHAPTER XIV 2010

  • It had been done before, to Oppenheimer, and he had paid dearly for the confidence he reposed in Warden Atherton's tool.

    Chapter 5 2010

  • He started and half reached for an open drawer where must have reposed a revolver, then bethought himself and growled, 'This is no bank.'

    Local Color 2010

  • He was reading a book, sober and leather-bound, while on his finely moulded, intellectual head reposed a black skull-cap.

    The Dignity of Dollars 2010

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