resupine
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of resupine
First recorded in 1620–30, resupine is from the Latin word resupīnus bent back, lying back. See re-, supine
Example Sentences
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Sansculottism, once more flung resupine, lies sprawling; sprawling its last.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
He spake, and, downward sway’d, fell resupine, With his huge neck aslant.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
As he lay on the bed half resupine, propped up with pillows, and also slept in that posture, his lower jaw dropped by its own weight, when the voluntary power of the muscles was suspended.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
He spake, and, downward sway'd, fell resupine, With his huge neck aslant.
From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by Knowles, John
Then, ev’ry rower to his bench repair’d; 90 They drew the loosen’d cable from its hold In the drill’d rock, and, resupine, at once With lusty strokes upturn’d the flashing waves.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
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