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quietus
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Titus Fulvius Iunius Quietus (died 261) was a Roman usurper. Quietus (Latin for "calm" or "at rest") may also refer to: People: Lusius Quietus , Roman general and governor Tiberius Avidius Quietus , Roman politician In popular culture: Quietus , a Latin ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A stillness or pause; something that quiets or represses; removal from activity; especially: death. 2 Final settlement (as of a debt).
WordNet
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n. euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep" [syn: rest , eternal rest , sleep , eternal sleep ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"discharge, clearing of accounts," 1530s, short for Medieval Latin phrase quietus est "he is quit" (see quit ). Hence, "death" (i.e. "final discharge"), c.1600. Latin quies also was used for "the peace of death."
Usage examples of quietus.
Basil Ransom had given no sign of life for ages, and Henry Burrage had certainly got his quietus before they went to Europe.
Aegean islands to Novius Priscus, Glitius Gallus, Annius Pollo, Verginius Flavus, Musonius Rufus, Cluvidienus Quietus, Julius Agrippa, Blitius Catulinus, Petronius Priscus, Julius Altinus.
Romanae quieti edictali programmate duodecim capitibus sicut jus civile legitur institutum in aevum servanda conscripsimus, quae custodita residuum jus non debilitare, sed potius corroborare videantur.
The emperor, returned with all speed to Babylon, delegated Quietus to chastise the rebel cities: Gyrene, Edessa, Seleucia, great Greek centers of the Orient, were set on fire as punishment for treasons planned at mere caravan stops or contrived and directed from Jewries.
In the past Quietus had burned down Gyrene, executed the dignitaries of Laodicea, and recaptured a ruined Edessa.
Shortly thereafter, in Lower Moesia, at a time when the capitulation of the Sarmatian princes allowed me to think of an early return to Italy, an exchange of dispatches in code with my former guardian warned me that Quietus had come back abruptly to Rome and had just conferred there with Palma.
The most dangerous of my adversaries was Lusius Quietus, a Roman with some Arab blood, whose Numidian squadrons had played an important part in the second Dacian campaign, and who was pressing fiercely for the Asiatic war.
Combat programs kicked in, tickling endocrine glands into an artificial quietus.
Ego ovis vetula, qui si quietus essem, verbi Dei lacte, et operimento lanae, aliquibus possem fortassis non ingratus esse, sed si me cum hoc tauro coniungitis, videbitis pro disparilitate trahentium, aratrum non recte procedere," etc.