Meanings
adjectiveresupine (not comparable)
- archaicnot comparableLying on the back; supine.
a most resupine patience
1628, Kenelm Digby, Journal of a Voyage Into the Mediterranean1 more example
He ſpake, and, dovvnvvard ſvvay'd, fell reſupine, / VVith his huge neck aſlant. All-conqu'ring ſleep / Soon ſeized him.
1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book IX.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 208, lines 533–535
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Origin
- Latinresupinus
- Englishresupine
From Latin resupinus, from re- (“re-”) + supinus (“bent backward, supine”).
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