a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Y.viij To giue contentacion to thy reposed will.

1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 228 Embrace this the onelie meane to liue a reposed and contented life.

1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr x. 281 A law, made by the Popes in reposed & peaceable times.

1664 R. Flecknoe Short Disc. Eng. Stage in Love's Kingdom G vi Wit being an exuberant thing,..but Judgement a stayed and reposed thing.

1698 W. Pope Moral & Polit. Fables xix. 17 Our Humour's too well known, We're not of a sedate, and reposd Flegm, Design'd by nature to endure affronts.

1761 London & Environs Described I. 286 A little boy is running away with a Satyr's musical instrument as he lies asleep; other figures are lying and leaning in a reposed manner.

1812 Gentleman's Mag. May 417/1 The Hero is represented in a reposed and dignified attitude, the left arm reclined upon an anchor.

1865 E. D. Cook Sir Felix Foy III. x. 248 As we know, a reposed manner had never been Lyddy's forte; and, to a great many eyes, graceful action presents quite as many attractions as dignified rest.

1928 V. M. Ames Aesthetics of Novel i. 4 The reposed faces and glowing bodies of swimmers who spend their days in the sun and water.

2005 W. Mueller Rome Revisited 168 The handsome couple didn't enter into the exchange, but stood back in a reposed way as Robert and Lisa exchanged words.

?1569 Disc. Match Duke of Norfolke & Queene of Scottes sig. Aiij The confidence and reposed trust hee has in the chiefest Papistes in the realme.

1631 F. Quarles Hist. Samson 79 O, had it bin a stranger, that betraid Reposed secrets, I had onely laid The blame upon my unadvised tongue.

1830 M. Loudon First Love III. xxix. 271 You acquit me..of availing myself of a reposed confidence to play the ruffian?

1862 Boston Rev. Mar. 129 The Christian community are custodians for the safe-keeping of the reposed charities and trusts for the dead.

1914 N.-Y. Tribune 18 Jan. (Sunday Mag.) 3 There are occasional corporations and individuals sufficiently unscrupulous to violate the reposed confidence.

1983 Southwestern Reporter 2nd Ser. (Lexis) 648 605 A scrupulous fidelity to the cause of the client which precludes the attorney from any personal advantage from the abuse of that reposed confidence.

1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 208 They sacrificed to Jupiter Soter, the saviour of the reposed Child.

1888 J. J. Macan tr. B. S. Schultze Pathol. & Treatm. Displacements of Uterus ii. ix. 310 Seyfert's idea of allowing the reposed uterus to become adherent in retroflexion is to be looked upon rather as a curiosity.

1897 Med. Rec. 29 May 758/2 In order to retain the reposed head [of the femur], it is necessary to keep the angle of abduction not far from ninety degrees.

1904 Louisville Monthly Jrnl. Med. & Surg. 10 423/2 Looking at it from the front, it looks as if there were two perfect hip joints present, but on the reposed side the head of the bone is seen to lie more superficially.

2005 A. D. Weaver et al. Bovine Surg. & Lameness (ed. 2) iv. 151 After initial partial reposition, maintain reposed part by ensuring that the remaining prolapsed uterus is kept above vulvar lip.