SUPINE

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.

2.
a.

Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined. If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine. Dryden.

3.
a.

Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless. He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly exposed to any temptation. Woodward.

4.
n.

A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine.


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