Definition of "rest"

And the land had rest fourscore years.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Judges 3:30

their visors closed, their lances in the rest

1700, [John] Dryden, “The Flower and the Leaf: Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A Vision.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]

halfway houses and travellers' rests

c. 1851, Catholicus (pen name of John Henry Newman, letter in The Times

in dust our final rest, and native home

1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Deuteronomy xii:9

a new account was opened under the heading "Irondale Mine" and so continued witli semiannual rest

1874, New York Court of Appeals, Records and Briefs

Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Exodus 23:12

There rest, if any rest can harbour there.

1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

And thereby at a pryory they rested them all nyght.

1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X

With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.

2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport

I sing to him that rests below,⁠And, since the grasses round me wave,⁠I take the grasses of the grave,And make them pipes whereon to blow.

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto XXI, page 35

On him I rested, after long debate, / And not without considering, fixed fate.

1700, John Dryden, Sigismonda and Guiscardo

Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. […] But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.

2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847

to rest in Heaven's determination

1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, Act I, scene ii, page 1

Plato and the rest of the philosophers

1676, Bishop Stillingfleet, A Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome

Arm'd like the rest, the Trojan prince appears.

1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]

The rest of us were engaged in various occupations: Mr. Trevor relating experiences of steamboat days on the Ohio to Mrs. Cooke; Miss Trevor buried in a serial in the Century; and Farrar and I taking an inventory of the fishing-tackle, when we were startled by a loud and profane ejaculation.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter XI, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.

Shepard: The rest of the galaxy isn't just going to bow down just because we tell them to. We'll need the fleets to bring them in line.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Citadel

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2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America‎, archived from the original on 7 February 2019:It also showed that 26 of the top 30 AI patent requests came from businesses. Universities or public research organizations made up the rest.