| 释义 |
quiesce, v.|kwaɪˈɛs, kwɪ-|
[ad. L. quiēscĕre to be quiet, f. quiēs quiet n.]
1. intr. To become quiescent; to subside into.
1833Wild Sports of West I. 27 Did tired nature quiesce for a moment, I was..roused with a tornado of..sounds. 1888Howells Annie Kilburn xxx. 330 The village, after a season of acute conjecture, quiesced into..sufferance of the anomaly.
2. intr. Of a letter: To become silent; said of the feeble consonants in Hebrew when their sound is absorbed in that of a preceding vowel.
1828Stuart Elem. Heb. Lang. (1831) 25 A moveable consonant is one which is sounded, and does not quiesce or coalesce. 1853J. R. Wolf Practical Heb. Gr. 8 The letters יו{hebhe}א are said to quiesce in the vowels after which they are placed. |