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quietus |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Quietus \Qui*e"tus\, n. [LL. quietus quit discharged, L., at rest, quiet, dead. See {Quiet}, a., and cf {Quit}, a.] Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death. When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: quietus 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}]
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