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[ri-POEZ] 
noun
1. a state of inactivity or rest
2. freedom for stress or uneasiness; peace of mind: "Lunch breaks offered precious repose for Eileen, and she was careful to spend them as far away from the office as possible."
3. calmness and composure of manner; tranquillity
transitive verb
4. to lay (oneself) down
5. to compose or rest (oneself); as 'to repose oneself on an easy chair'
intransitive verb
6. to lie at rest
7. to lie dead, often used euphemistically; as 'she reposes in her tomb'
8. to lie while resting on or being supported by something
additional noun forms: reposal, reposer
Origin:
Approximately 1450; from Middle English, 'reposen': to be at rest; borrowed from Middle French, 'reposer'; from Late Latin, 'repausare': to cause to rest (from Latin, 're-': intensive prefix + Late Latin, 'pausare': to stop, to rest, from Latin, 'pausa': pause, rest). In action:
"On one side is a lily pond and on the other is a busy coastal thoroughfare providing lobster boats and schooners passage between Maine's Penobscot and Jericho bays. Here is the farmhouse where Richards, a former fund manager at two of the country's most formidable investment houses, Capital Research & Management and Primecap, finds repose in the summer months. It's where two years ago we first heard his ruminations about the state of the financial markets and the economy. His warnings then of severe repercussions still to be felt from the burst bubble and of new problems erupting from the Mideast were scarily prescient. Last year when we met, it was to watch President Bush address the nation in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 and try to absorb the shock. In our latest tete-a-tete, Richards says he still thinks the decline in the market has yet to run its course, yet he's reduced his short equity positions dramatically and added to his longs. He's also betting on the euro as a way of betting against the dollar."
Sandra Ward. "A Slight Thaw: An Interview with David Richards," SmartMoney.com (October 28, 2002).
"But then again, slowly isn't the right word to describe anything about Benjamin.
Typical day, total chaos
Take the rest of Saturday morning -- starting, perhaps, with a fleeting moment of repose. Benjamin in a chair in front of the TV, munching on potato chips.
Without warning, an impulse hits him. He races out to the inflatable pool in the backyard, leaving the door to bang shut behind him -- and leaving his mother to scramble up from the table after him.
'Noooooo falling backward into the pool,' warns Aubrey.
Benjamin leans a little farther back. And a little farther. 'Noooooo falling backward into the pool,' Aubrey says again.
Splash!"
Lauren Gold. "The greatest joy she's ever known," Palm Beach Post (October 24, 2002).
"But one player, one MVP . . . that narrows the field to just The One -- the biggest Bigfoot that ever bigged a foot. In silence, in snarl, in repose and in his backswing, Barry Bonds is about to get what's coming to him."
Ray Ratto. "A Giant among men deserves spoils: No other Giant can beat Bonds for Series MVP," San Franscisco Chronicle (October 26, 2002).
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