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单词 repose
释义

repose

See also: reposé

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English reposen (“to be at rest”), from Middle French reposer from Old French repauser from Late Latin repausō (“to lay to rest, quiet; comfort, soothe; lie down, be at rest, rest”), from re- (“again, back”) +‎ pausō (“to halt, cease, pause, rest”), from Latin pausa (“pause, halt, stop, rest”) from Koine Greek παῦσις (paûsis, “stopping, ceasing; pause”) from Ancient Greek παύω (paúō, “to make to rest; cease, stop, hinder, halt”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rĭ-pōzʹ
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpoʊz/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpəʊz/
  • Hyphenation: re‧pose
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊz

Noun

repose (countable and uncountable, plural reposes)

  1. (dated) Rest; sleep.
    • 1582 – 1610, Douay Rheims Bible, Book of Ecclesiasticus (Wisdom of Sirach) XL.1–11:
      Great trauail is created to al men, and an heauie yoke vpon the children of Adam, from the day of their comming forth of their mothers wombe, vntil the day of their burying, into the mother of al. Their cogitations, and feares of the hart, imagination of things to come, and the day of their ending: from him that ſitteth vpon the glorious ſeate, vnto him that is humbled in earth & aſhes. From him that weareth hyacinth, and beareth the crowne, euen to him that is couered with rude linen: furie, enuie, tumult, wauering, and the feare of death, anger perſeuering, and contention, and in time of repoſe in bed, the ſleepe of night changeth his knowledge. A litle is as nothing in reſt, and afterward in ſleepe, as in the day of watch. He is troubled in the viſion of his hart, as he that hath eſcaped in the day of battel. In the time of his ſafetie he roſe vp, and merueleth at no feare: with al fleſh, from man euen to beaſt, and vpon ſinners ſeuenfold. Beſides theſe things, death, bloud, contention, and ſword, oppreſſions, famine, and contrition, and ſcourges: for the wicked al theſe were created, and for them the floud was made. Al things that are of the earth, ſhal turne into the earth, and al waters ſhal returne into the ſea.
    • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 305520:
      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 […], 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.
    • c. 1805, Henry Francis Cary (translator), Dante, Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto 10
      So may thy lineage find at last repose I thus adjured him
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 279:
      Over the whole landscape lay a repose and a peace so perfect that no one could have suspected the close proximity of the capital.
  3. (geology) The period between eruptions of a volcano.
  4. (art) A form of visual harmony that gives rest to the eye.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:calmness
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Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To lie at rest; to rest.
    • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, OCLC 1002865976; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, OCLC 987451380:
      Within a thicket I repos'd.
  2. (intransitive) To lie; to be supported.
    trap reposing on sand
  3. (transitive) To lay, to set down.
    • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, OCLC 1002865976; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, OCLC 987451380:
      But these thy fortunes let us straight repose / In this divine cave's bosom.
    • 1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], OCLC 1179517876:
      Pebbles […] reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth […] are left behind.
  4. (transitive) To place, have, or rest; to set; to entrust.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:
      Now woorthy Tamburlaine, haue I repoſ’d,
      In thy approoued Fortunes all my hope,
      What thinkſt thou man, ſhal come of our attempts?
    • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:
      The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.
  5. (transitive) To compose; to make tranquil.
  6. (intransitive) To reside in something.
  7. (intransitive, figuratively) To remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.
    • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, OCLC 2619891:
      It is upon these that the soul may repose.
  8. (intransitive, Eastern Orthodox Church) To die, especially of a saint.
    Simon reposed in the year 1287.
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Etymology 2

re- +‎ pose

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To pose again.

Further reading

  • 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
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “repose”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Asturian

Verb

repose

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

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁə.poz/
  • Audio(file)

Verb

repose

  1. inflection of reposer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

See also

  • repos

Anagrams

  • opères, opérés

Spanish

Verb

repose

  1. inflection of reposar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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