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 andtranquil ;at rest
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Examples
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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.
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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
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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
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The two boys were blind, also, to the manifold glories of Mirror Lake which reposed at their very feet.
DUTCH COURAGE 2010
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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
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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
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Not in him, but in me were reposed the sealed orders.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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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
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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
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He was reading a book, sober and leather-bound, while on his finely moulded, intellectual head reposed a black skull-cap.
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