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Rested   /rˈɛstəd/  /rˈɛstɪd/   Listen
verb
Rest  v. t.  To arrest. (Obs.)


Rest  v. t.  
1.
To lay or place at rest; to quiet. "Your piety has paid All needful rites, to rest my wandering shade."
2.
To place, as on a support; to cause to lean. "Her weary head upon your bosom rest."


Rest  v. i.  (past & past part. rested; pres. part. resting)  
1.
To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion. "God... rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made." "Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest."
2.
To be free from whatever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still. "There rest, if any rest can harbor there."
3.
To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.
4.
To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
5.
To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead. "Fancy... then retries Into her private cell when Nature rests."
6.
To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise. "On him I rested, after long debate, And not without considering, fixed my fate."
7.
To be satisfied; to acquiesce. "To rest in Heaven's determination."
To rest with, to be in the power of; to depend upon; as, it rests with him to decide.


Rest  v. i.  To be left; to remain; to continue to be. "The affairs of men rest still uncertain."





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"Rested" Quotes from Famous Books



... in jealous curls about his shoulders bare. From vale to vale, from wood to wood, he flew, Breathing upon the flowers his passion new, And wound with many a river to its head, To find where this sweet nymph prepar'd her secret bed: In vain; the sweet nymph might nowhere be found, And so he rested, on the lonely ground, Pensive, and full of painful jealousies Of the Wood-Gods, and even the very trees. There as he stood, he heard a mournful voice, Such as once heard, in gentle heart, destroys All pain but pity: thus the lone voice spake: "When from this wreathed tomb shall I awake! ...
— Lamia • John Keats
... her," and for the first time since he had been in that room the brown eyes rested full ...
— Rosamond - or, The Youthful Error • Mary J. Holmes
... house looked as we approached it through the gathering darkness! All the light appeared to come from the snow which rested wherever it could lie—on roofs and window ledges and turrets. Even on the windward walls, every little roughness sustained its own frozen patch, so that their grey was spotted all over with whiteness. Not a ...
— Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood • George MacDonald
... during the dark hours, on February 8th Aurora looked as if she had passed a very bad night indeed. The mist-rack trailed along the rock slopes, and rested upon the Wady-sands; the mountains veiled ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... I'm rested now," and Dolly jumped up and walked on. She tired easily, but also a rest of a very few minutes made her ready to walk on again. She followed Dotty in silence for some distance and then said; "you're sure you do ...
— Two Little Women • Carolyn Wells


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