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▪ I. reˈposit, n. rare—0.
[f. the vb.]
A repository.
1855in Ogilvie Suppl.
▪ II. reposit, v.|rɪˈpɒzɪt|
Also 7–8 reposite.
[f. L. reposit-, ppl. stem of repōnĕre to repone: cf. repose v.1]
1. trans. To put or deposit (a thing) in a place; to lay up, store.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 79 Untill he come,..for whom it is reposited, or laid up. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. vi. 16 Erecting such a Symbol of the Divine presence as was to be afterward reposited in the Ark, namely, the figure of a Cherub. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth i. (1723) 48 These Shells could never possibly have been reposited thereby in the Manner we now find them. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. iv. xiii. 230 Some reposite their Eggs or Young in the Earth. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Pope Wks. IV. 29 The original copy of the Iliad, which..is now..reposited in the Museum. 1808G. Edwards Pract. Plan iii. 23 The valuable riches nature has here reposited for the efforts of human labour. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xii. ii. (1872) IV. 138 The King..handed it..to a Page to reposit in the proper waste-basket.
2. To replace. rare.
1800C. B. Brown Arthur Mervyn, II. iv. 69 The grave was covered, the spade reposited under the shed, and my seat in the kitchen resumed. 1884G. H. Taylor Pelv. & Hern. Therap. (1885) 107 The sphincter appeared to have little power to retain the intestine when reposited.
Hence reˈpositing vbl. n.
1713Derham Phys.-Theol. iii. ii. 66 A special Providence of God in the repositing of these watery Beds. |