resupine

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English

Etymology

From Latin resupinus, from re- (“re-”) + supinus (“bent backward, supine”).

Adjective

resupine (not comparable)

  1. Lying on the back; supine.
    • 1628, Kenelm Digby, Journal of a Voyage Into the Mediterranean:
      a most resupine patience
    • 1791, Homer, W[illiam] Cowper, transl., “[The Odyssey.] Book IX.”, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, , volume II, London: J Johnson, , →OCLC, page 208, lines 533–534:
      He ſpake, and, downward ſway'd, fell reſupine, / With his huge neck aſlant.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “resupine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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