a1648 Ld. Herbert Occas. Verses (1665) 49 Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer, Natures high'st rapture, and the vision giver.

a1660 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais Third Bk. (1693) li. 413 The choicest Beds..would without it [sc. a herb] yield no Delight or Pleasure to the Reposers in them.

1840 F. W. Taylor Voy. Around World I. 84 The grave..where the mingled dust of the new comer would rest, until another claimant for a place among these deep reposers shall again lay open this crowded home of the dead.

1860 W. R. Smith As it Is xv. 248 The doctor..had inveigled one of her fingers into his hand... Finding it no reluctant reposer in his palm, he drew another after it.

1913 Pedagogical Seminary Dec. 437 Terms used are repressive and euphemistic... A drink is a morning rouser, a reposer, a sparkler, a rinse.

2000 Roanoke (Va.) Times (Nexis) 8 Mar. 1 There were some interesting pictures with this article—fortunately there wasn't one of a reposing room and a reposer.

1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 32 600 A steadfast reposer of his fears and anxieties in religious influences.