resting placen.

Brit.

/ˈrɛstɪŋ pleɪs/, U.S.

/ˈrɛstɪŋ ˌpleɪs/

Forms: see resting n.¹ and place n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: resting n.¹, place n.¹

Etymology: < resting n.¹ + place n.¹

a. A place where a person or animal rests or is able to rest, esp. on a journey. Also: spec. heaven or paradise as a place of rest from life.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary

harbourc1300

sojourna1375

restinga1382

resting placea1382

sojourninga1400

diversoryc1410

deversaryc1485

inn1529

roost1607

peregrination1610

roosting place1643

harbourage1651

séjour1769

pied-à-terre1823

hoochie1952

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) Judges xviii. 3 Knowyng þe voice of þe ȝonglyng leuyte, & vsyng þe restynge place [L. diversorio] of hym, þei seidyn to hym, ‘who broȝte þee hyder?’

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 16 (MED) Myght he neuer noure fynd a restyng place.

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xx. 79 (MED) It semede to Ony Marchawnt..That Som Resteng place it hadde be.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Eii^v That he shulde neuer thynke this worlde his finall habitacion & restyng place.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xix. 347 Lyke as the Iewes betokened the Restingplace of the blessed sort by a goodly Gardyne.

a1627 J. Beaumont Dial. World, Pilgrim, & Vertue in Bosworth-field (1629) 70 Weary passengers, whose desp'rate case I pitie, and prouide a resting place.

1682 T. Otway Venice Preserv'd iii. 28 Can Belvidera want a resting place When these poor Arms are open to receive her?

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 378 The various conveniencies and accommodations provided for the brutes, their feedings and resting places.

1793 J. MacDonell Diary in C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders (1933) 96 The Portage is..divided by the voyageurs into sixteen Poses or resting places.

1814 R. Southey Carmen Triumph. xviii Then when the waters of the flood abate The Dove her resting-place secure may find.

1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost i. 23 That this world is not his resting-place, that his home is in eternity.

1906 J. London Moon-face & Other Stories 154 A secret pasture for prospectors and a resting-place for tired burros.

1968 Times 9 Oct. 8/2 Paraa Safari Lodge is perhaps the best known resting place for Murchison Falls visitors.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 June ii. 30/2 A kind of sky lobby, surrounding the staircase atrium, functions like an aerial piazza: a resting place for visitors moving through galleries, ramps, stairs.

b. figurative.

ΚΠ

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 1865 (MED) The wyn makth ek the goode blod, In which the Soule which is good Hath chosen hire a resting place.

a1450 ( G. Chaucer Bk. Duchess (Tanner 346) (1871) l. 1005 Trouth..Had closed his maner principall In her that was his restyng place.

c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) 132 (MED) Þe sowll..ys Crystys own specyall, Hys restynge place, hys plesant see.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. iv. 61 As a resting place and perfection of so much former speach as had bene vttered.

1628 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule vi. 770 These celestiall buildings, which Scripture calleth, euerlasting Tabernacles, the resting place of all created desires.

1662 J. Glanvill Lux Orientalis iii. 21 We have examind the first way of stating the Soul's original, that of continual Creation; and finding no sure resting place for our inquiry here, we remove to the second.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 333. ¶22 As he knew all the Arts of affecting the Mind, had he not given it certain resting places.

1789 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1861) II. 185 The sameness..is such, that there are no periods or resting-places for the mind.

1863 Sat. Rev. 2 May 554 The French Academy is now the last resting-place in France of freedom of thought.

1876 R. H. Hutton Ess. (ed. 2) I. Pref. 8 The final resting-place of the moral reason of man.

1923 J. S. Huxley Ess. Biologist ii. 87 The other..finds a sanction and a resting-place in being part of something vastly bigger than itself.

1987 G. Tindall To City (1989) iii. 57 A chair at Manchester University probably seems to him the natural resting place for his career.

2. More fully last (also final) resting place. The place where a dead person is laid to rest, esp. a grave.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun]

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througheOE

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beda1400

earth-beda1400

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lying1480

delfa1500

worms' kitchen?a1500

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funeral?a1534

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pit-hole1602

urn1607

cell1609

hearse1610

polyandrum1627

requietory1631

burial-place1633

mortuary1654

narrow cell1686

ground-sweat1699

sacred place1728

narrow house1792

plot1852

narrow bed1854

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 63 (MED) Seynt Oswald his arm is in þe abbay at Peterisborgh..it was..i-stole [L. furtim sublatum] out of þe olde restynge place and þider i-brouȝt.

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. iii. xxviii. 52 Of his resting place, or tombe, we are enstructed by Polycrates.

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. iii. 8 Hee..summoned all the nobilitie that came to visit him to give him assured promise to be as assistants, and to convay him to his last resting place.

1646 F. Wortley Characters & Elegies sig. A3 The chief mourner at every resting place sung..the burden of the song.

1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator III. ix. 300 As they look'd down the steep Descent, by which so many Monarchs had been carry'd, to their last resting Place on Earth, one cry'd, 'Tis hellish dark.

1790 World 8 Nov. The body was removed, and placed in the churchyard, close to the resting-place of poor Ned Shuter!

1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. xiv. 92 His body's resting place, of old.

1832 Ld. Tennyson New Year's Eve x, in Poems (new ed.) 99 If I can I'll come again, mother, from out my resting place.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xix. 240 The chapter from Job which has consigned so many to their last resting-place.

1900 McClure's Mag. Dec. 144/2 The cook, wrapped in his favorite blanket, was placed in a huge, unwieldy coffin and lowered to his final resting place.

1965 Times 10 July 11/1 Shiraz..the resting place of the famous poet Hafiz.

2001 Fortean Times Jan. 41/1 Not far away is a unique rock-cut tomb, thought to be the last resting place of Tantalus.

3. A break or landing in a staircase.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] > landing

half-pace1611

landing-place1611

rest1611

resting place1645

plate1661

hearth-pacec1675

foot pace1679

stand1709

flat1730

quarter-pace1730

landing1789

landing floor1856

1645 D. North Forest of Varieties i. 5 Sometimes amongst pithy and tough lines I thinke it not amisse to interpose one of an easie straine, like resting places in lofty staires, to ease the Reader.

1692 tr. C. Perrault Abridgm. Archit. Vitruvius ii. i. 129 Above and quite round the Steps or Degrees was a Portico of Pillars, the Steps being separated by divers Palliers, or Landing and Resting places which went round.

1703 tr. A. de Ovalle Hist. Relation Chile i. x. 25/1 The little Valleys, which are like so many resting places in that great Staircase, where Passengers take Breath.

1780 E. M. Hist. Lady Bettesworth & Capt. Hastings I. viii. 92 The number of steps..are one hundred and forty, divided into eleven flights, or resting places, on each of which is a seat.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 594 Where the height of a story is considerable, resting places are necessary.

1887 H. R. Haggard Allan Quatermain xi. 129 This marvellous staircase was supported upon a single enormous granite arch, of which the resting-place between the two flights formed the crown.

1914 P. W. Humphreys Pract. Bk. Garden Archit. xxxiii. 319 The bend must..give a changing view-point, and a resting place in the centre of the stairs.

2003 S. Rayne Tower of Silence (2004) 430 The stairs widened briefly into a tiny stone room, five or six feet square, with a narrow window set into the stone walls. A resting place, probably.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	resting place
释义	resting placen. Brit. /ˈrɛstɪŋ pleɪs/, U.S. /ˈrɛstɪŋ ˌpleɪs/ Forms: see resting n.¹ and place n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: resting n.¹, place n.¹ Etymology: < resting n.¹ + place n.¹ 1. a. A place where a person or animal rests or is able to rest, esp. on a journey. Also: spec. heaven or paradise as a place of rest from life. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary harbourc1300 sojourna1375 restinga1382 resting placea1382 sojourninga1400 diversoryc1410 deversaryc1485 inn1529 roost1607 peregrination1610 roosting place1643 harbourage1651 séjour1769 pied-à-terre1823 hoochie1952 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) Judges xviii. 3 Knowyng þe voice of þe ȝonglyng leuyte, & vsyng þe restynge place [L. diversorio] of hym, þei seidyn to hym, ‘who broȝte þee hyder?’ ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 16 (MED) Myght he neuer noure fynd a restyng place. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xx. 79 (MED) It semede to Ony Marchawnt..That Som Resteng place it hadde be. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Eii^v That he shulde neuer thynke this worlde his finall habitacion & restyng place. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xix. 347 Lyke as the Iewes betokened the Restingplace of the blessed sort by a goodly Gardyne. a1627 J. Beaumont Dial. World, Pilgrim, & Vertue in Bosworth-field (1629) 70 Weary passengers, whose desp'rate case I pitie, and prouide a resting place. 1682 T. Otway Venice Preserv'd iii. 28 Can Belvidera want a resting place When these poor Arms are open to receive her? a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 378 The various conveniencies and accommodations provided for the brutes, their feedings and resting places. 1793 J. MacDonell Diary in C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders (1933) 96 The Portage is..divided by the voyageurs into sixteen Poses or resting places. 1814 R. Southey Carmen Triumph. xviii Then when the waters of the flood abate The Dove her resting-place secure may find. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost i. 23 That this world is not his resting-place, that his home is in eternity. 1906 J. London Moon-face & Other Stories 154 A secret pasture for prospectors and a resting-place for tired burros. 1968 Times 9 Oct. 8/2 Paraa Safari Lodge is perhaps the best known resting place for Murchison Falls visitors. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 June ii. 30/2 A kind of sky lobby, surrounding the staircase atrium, functions like an aerial piazza: a resting place for visitors moving through galleries, ramps, stairs. b. figurative. ΚΠ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 1865 (MED) The wyn makth ek the goode blod, In which the Soule which is good Hath chosen hire a resting place. a1450 ( G. Chaucer Bk. Duchess (Tanner 346) (1871) l. 1005 Trouth..Had closed his maner principall In her that was his restyng place. c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) 132 (MED) Þe sowll..ys Crystys own specyall, Hys restynge place, hys plesant see. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. iv. 61 As a resting place and perfection of so much former speach as had bene vttered. 1628 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule vi. 770 These celestiall buildings, which Scripture calleth, euerlasting Tabernacles, the resting place of all created desires. 1662 J. Glanvill Lux Orientalis iii. 21 We have examind the first way of stating the Soul's original, that of continual Creation; and finding no sure resting place for our inquiry here, we remove to the second. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 333. ¶22 As he knew all the Arts of affecting the Mind, had he not given it certain resting places. 1789 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1861) II. 185 The sameness..is such, that there are no periods or resting-places for the mind. 1863 Sat. Rev. 2 May 554 The French Academy is now the last resting-place in France of freedom of thought. 1876 R. H. Hutton Ess. (ed. 2) I. Pref. 8 The final resting-place of the moral reason of man. 1923 J. S. Huxley Ess. Biologist ii. 87 The other..finds a sanction and a resting-place in being part of something vastly bigger than itself. 1987 G. Tindall To City (1989) iii. 57 A chair at Manchester University probably seems to him the natural resting place for his career. 2. More fully last (also final) resting place. The place where a dead person is laid to rest, esp. a grave. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] buriels854 througheOE burianOE graveOE lairc1000 lair-stowc1000 lich-restc1000 pitOE grass-bedOE buriness1175 earth housec1200 sepulchrec1200 tombc1300 lakec1320 buriala1325 monumenta1325 burying-place1382 resting placea1387 sepulturea1387 beda1400 earth-beda1400 longhousea1400 laystow1452 lying1480 delfa1500 worms' kitchen?a1500 bier1513 laystall1527 funeral?a1534 lay-bed1541 restall1557 cellarc1560 burying-grave1599 pit-hole1602 urn1607 cell1609 hearse1610 polyandrum1627 requietory1631 burial-place1633 mortuary1654 narrow cell1686 ground-sweat1699 sacred place1728 narrow house1792 plot1852 narrow bed1854 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 63 (MED) Seynt Oswald his arm is in þe abbay at Peterisborgh..it was..i-stole [L. furtim sublatum] out of þe olde restynge place and þider i-brouȝt. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. iii. xxviii. 52 Of his resting place, or tombe, we are enstructed by Polycrates. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. iii. 8 Hee..summoned all the nobilitie that came to visit him to give him assured promise to be as assistants, and to convay him to his last resting place. 1646 F. Wortley Characters & Elegies sig. A3 The chief mourner at every resting place sung..the burden of the song. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator III. ix. 300 As they look'd down the steep Descent, by which so many Monarchs had been carry'd, to their last resting Place on Earth, one cry'd, 'Tis hellish dark. 1790 World 8 Nov. The body was removed, and placed in the churchyard, close to the resting-place of poor Ned Shuter! 1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. xiv. 92 His body's resting place, of old. 1832 Ld. Tennyson New Year's Eve x, in Poems (new ed.) 99 If I can I'll come again, mother, from out my resting place. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xix. 240 The chapter from Job which has consigned so many to their last resting-place. 1900 McClure's Mag. Dec. 144/2 The cook, wrapped in his favorite blanket, was placed in a huge, unwieldy coffin and lowered to his final resting place. 1965 Times 10 July 11/1 Shiraz..the resting place of the famous poet Hafiz. 2001 Fortean Times Jan. 41/1 Not far away is a unique rock-cut tomb, thought to be the last resting place of Tantalus. 3. A break or landing in a staircase. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] > landing half-pace1611 landing-place1611 rest1611 resting place1645 plate1661 hearth-pacec1675 foot pace1679 stand1709 flat1730 quarter-pace1730 landing1789 landing floor1856 1645 D. North Forest of Varieties i. 5 Sometimes amongst pithy and tough lines I thinke it not amisse to interpose one of an easie straine, like resting places in lofty staires, to ease the Reader. 1692 tr. C. Perrault Abridgm. Archit. Vitruvius ii. i. 129 Above and quite round the Steps or Degrees was a Portico of Pillars, the Steps being separated by divers Palliers, or Landing and Resting places which went round. 1703 tr. A. de Ovalle Hist. Relation Chile i. x. 25/1 The little Valleys, which are like so many resting places in that great Staircase, where Passengers take Breath. 1780 E. M. Hist. Lady Bettesworth & Capt. Hastings I. viii. 92 The number of steps..are one hundred and forty, divided into eleven flights, or resting places, on each of which is a seat. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 594 Where the height of a story is considerable, resting places are necessary. 1887 H. R. Haggard Allan Quatermain xi. 129 This marvellous staircase was supported upon a single enormous granite arch, of which the resting-place between the two flights formed the crown. 1914 P. W. Humphreys Pract. Bk. Garden Archit. xxxiii. 319 The bend must..give a changing view-point, and a resting place in the centre of the stairs. 2003 S. Rayne Tower of Silence (2004) 430 The stairs widened briefly into a tiny stone room, five or six feet square, with a narrow window set into the stone walls. A resting place, probably. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1382
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