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quietn.

Brit. /ˈkwʌɪət/, U.S. /ˈkwaɪət/
Forms: Middle English kuit (in a late copy), Middle English queyte, Middle English quieete, Middle English quite, Middle English qwiete, Middle English qwyete, Middle English–1500s quyete, Middle English–1600s quiete, Middle English–1600s quyet, Middle English– quiet, 1500s–1600s quiett, 1600s quiatt; Scottish pre-1700 quiete, pre-1700 quyat, pre-1700 quyet, pre-1700 quyete, pre-1700 quyett, pre-1700 quyuet (perhaps transmission error), pre-1700 qviete, pre-1700 qwyet, pre-1700 qwyete, pre-1700 qwyit, pre-1700 1700s– quiet.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French quiete; Latin quiēt-, quiēs.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French quiete tranquility, peaceful conditions, freedom from interference, immunity (c1174 in Old French; often difficult to distinguish from quieté quiety n.) and its etymon classical Latin quiēt-, quiēs sleep, rest, repose, absence of activity, absence of noise, freedom from disturbance, freedom from anxiety, placidness, serenity, tranquility, peaceful conditions (in social or political life) < the Indo-European base of while n. Compare Portuguese quiete (mid 16th cent.), Italian quiete (a1306).
1.
a. Freedom from mental or emotional agitation; inner tranquillity; peace of mind. Now rare.See also quot. a1500 at Phrases 1b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > freedom from trouble, care, or sorrow > [noun]
lissOE
carelessnessc1000
restOE
peacea1225
ease?c1225
bielda1300
quietc1330
heartseasea1393
suretya1413
securitya1425
secureness1550
serenity1599
assecurance1616
euthymy1623
sereneness1628
levitya1631
repose1652
untroublednessa1660
serenitude1672
serene1744
securance1849
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 1283 (MED) In gret quiet and pays He ledde hem to his maister Blays.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 181 Whan þe lymes beeþ wel arayed, and as they schulde be in schappe, colour and hewe,..meuynge and place, þan haþ þe man good þees [read pees] and quiete and is in good heele and reste.
c1395 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 1395 This Ianuarie..Considered hath..The lusty lyf, the vertuous quyete, That is in mariage hony swete.
?a1430 T. Hoccleve in Minor Poems (1925) ii. 281 Now, holy goost..O tendre hertid cause of al quieete, Our bittirnesse torne al in-to sweete.
a1628 J. Preston New Covenant (1634) 421 As wondrous quiet and peaceableness, and calmness in the heart.
1688 Lady Russell Lett. I. lxxi. 156 Such letters as yours, Sir, do not disturb my quiet.
1726 J. Swift Let. to Worrall 15 July in Wks. (1766) X. 337 An accident, that must be so fatal to my quiet.
1756 T. Secker Let. 23 Dec. (1991) 271 I recommend to you..to consult the Peace of the Parish & your own Quiet, instead of being led by Resentmt.
1840 Lady C. M. C. Bury Hist. Flirt vi A matter that concerns my quiet.
1873 A. Anderson Song of Labour 67 Solitude will surely bring My quiet back again.
1924 I. Irwin in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1924 (1925) 21 For that interval, vaguely soothed by his own mental quiet, Shakspere tried not to hear him.
b. Freedom from external disturbance or interruption; (formerly also) †freedom from work or occupation; rest, repose (obsolete).In quot. 1650 as a count noun.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] > rest
roOE
restOE
leathc1175
quieta1398
leathinga1400
restinga1450
reposinga1470
reposec1485
requiem1565
respire1590
reposure1602
reposal1614
reposance1647
lassation1650
recumbency1653
requiescence1654
the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [noun] > as condition in which an individual is
peacec1230
quieta1398
repose?1543
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 326 Þis vnite [sc. of þe trinite] moot be sole and singuler wiþoute piere, so þat þer Inne may be styntynge state, quiete and reste [L. status et quies] of alle vnitees.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 9128 Whare alle ryghtwyse men salle won at ees, In ioyfulle quyete, and rest, and pese.
c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Testament (Harl. 218) 479 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 347 Lat me not reste nor haue no quiete; Occupye my soule with spirytuall trauayle.
a1500 ( Poems from Pilgrimage of Soul (Egerton) in F. J. Furnivall Wks. T. Hoccleve: Regement Princes (1897) p.xxxv (MED) Aftir laboure, tyme is of quiete [rhyme is for-gete].
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 15 The fornoon occupied..in quiet & vocation from woork.
1592 R. Greene Thirde Pt. Conny-catching sig. C She seeing him laid in bed..commits him to his quiet.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 26 I have too much care of my owne quiet, to goe about to trouble his.
1650 A. Weldon Court & Char. King James 185 More beneficiall to the Subjects in respect of their quiets.
1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra iii. v. 29 Satan so molested Job..that as an overwearied man he cries out he had no quiet.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xi. 235 An errant Vixen of a Wife soured his domestic Quiet . View more context for this quotation
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 247 The same lazy but restless disposition, which loves sloth and hates quiet.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Ginevra in Posthumous Poems (1824) 232 Her maidens..left her at her own request to keep An hour of quiet.
1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 370/1 To this duty of self-culture have the two personages whose life we are accompanying devoted their years of comparative quiet.
1903 W. B. Yeats Let. Sept. (1994) III. 422 I am the slowest writer of rhyme I know of & cannot do it at all unless I have great quiet and very soon I shall be in Dublin or London amid a whirl of things.
1997 Augusta (Georgia) Chron. (Nexis) 26 Jan. a25 Somebody may interrupt your peace and quiet during the Super Bowl post-game show to announce that you've just won ten million dollars!!
2.
a. Absence of disturbance or discord; peace in social or political life. Also personified.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > peace > [noun]
grithc1000
saughtc1100
peacec1300
quietc1400
pax1564
scabbard1802
warlessness1928
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. i. 121 God..garte þe heuene to stekye and stonden in quiete.
a1425 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Galba) 29341 (MED) Cursed..Er þai þat pouer men ouerlays, Or robbes or reues on ani side Whare pese and quiet suld bityde.
1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) xx. xvii. sig. cc.vi In this realme wyll be now no quyete but euer stryf and debate.
1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 27 §119 Lawes and ordinaunces for the..good quiet of his saide dominion of Wales.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A8v Carelesse Quiet lyes, Wrapt in eternall silence farre from enimyes.
1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 38 Joyn with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iv. xlvi. 380 To whom the care of the Publique quiet is committed.
1701 Life & Acts Sir William Wallace p. xi He recovered all the strengths on the borders, and brought the south parts of Scotland to good quiet.
1775 W. Mason Gray's Ode Vicissitude in Poems 80 Humble Quiet builds her cell.
a1797 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 43 Why is not the nation's quiet secured, and its independance asserted?
1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse Shoe Robinson (1852) xxix. 340 There was all the seeming quiet of a pacified country. The truth was, the war had rolled northwards.
1874 G. Bancroft Footpr. of Time i. 104 A long period of almost absolute quiet followed the establishment of the empire.
1926 World's Work Sept. 494/1 Herriot..took position as the leader of a ‘liberal’ policy of rapprochement with Germany and general peace and quiet in France.
2004 Daily Mail (Nexis) 30 Jan. 45 Yesterday's attack ended five months of comparative quiet in the Israeli capital.
b. Absence of excessive motion, noise, or bustle; silence; stillness, calm; an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [noun]
stillnessc888
roOE
stilth?c1225
lowna1250
peacea1275
restc1350
tranquillityc1374
leea1400
tranquille1412
quietness?a1425
quiet?c1450
restfulnessc1450
quiety?a1500
quietation?1504
calm1547
calmness1561
peacefulnessa1566
halcyon1567
repose1577
quietude1598
still1608
hushtness1609
reposedness1616
reposeness1617
serenity1641
undisturbedness1649
indisturbance1660
pacateness1666
sleep1807
tranquilness1818
requiescence1837
reposefulness1872
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > [noun] > silence
stillnessc1050
silence?c1225
clum1340
stillhead1340
quiet?c1450
whust1558
husht1566
muteness1590
silency1595
still1608
hushtness1609
whistness1609
silentness1664
noiselessness1834
soundlessness1834
non-speech1863
shush1954
deafening silence1968
ciunas1986
society > authority > subjection > obedience > [noun] > conformity to principles of social order > orderly condition of state or society
peace?a1160
God's peacec1300
good rulec1300
the king's peace1428
quiet?c1450
civilityc1454
civilness1556
composure1702
social order1703
eunomy1721
eunomia1861
?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 316 Ageyn cowrs of watyr wyll he flete Ȝif þe water renne in good quiete.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. i. sig. A2v No breath disturbs the quiet of the ayre.
1658 E. Waller & S. Godolphin tr. Virgil Passion of Dido for Æneas sig. E3 Now was the time when weary mortalls steep Their carefull temples in the dew of sleep. On seas on earth, and all that in them dwell A deathlike quiet, and deep silence fell.
1740 P. Delany Hist. Acct. Life & Reign David (ed. 2) I. xix. 232 When they reached the camp, they found it in a deep quiet; sleep and silence reigned throughout.
1816 P. B. Shelley Alastor 27 A smooth spot Of glassy quiet mid those battling tides Is left.
1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland iii. 60 It was only the quiet that preceded the outbreak of another storm.
1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse xiii. 181 The Casa da Bonnyfeather lay wrapt in the profound quiet which precedes the first stir of dawn.
1957 R. Ellison Let. 28 July in R. Ellison & A. Murray Trading Twelves (2000) 171 One of the young fellows ripped up the summer quiet with an aria from Verdi.
2005 K. MacNeil Stornoway Way 239 In the bathroom's quiet, the only sounds are my heart's kettledrum and the occasional drip-drup of water droplets diving home.
3. The condition of remaining quiet, of refraining from excessive noise, exertion, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [noun] > condition of remaining
quiet1488
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 587 The ost he maid in gud quyet to be.
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Henry VI. vii My mynde to quyet bent, had not bene tossed so.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxxxi. 7 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 223 None more [than me] for quiett might compare Eu'n with the babe.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. v. 343 God was a great Lord, who with great quiet and leasure performeth his workes.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 74. ⁋12 Knowledge and genius are often enemies to quiet, by suggesting ideas of excellence.
a1894 W. Pater Gaston de Latour (1896) ii. 41 How becomingly..that self-respecting quiet sat upon their high-bred figures.
1901 F. Norris Octopus i. vi. 259 Excitable and turbulent in trifling matters, when actual bodily danger threatened he was of an abnormal quiet.
1994 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 18 July a1 Instead of a full 60 seconds, Field had his pupils and teachers observe quiet for 40 seconds.

Phrases

P1.
a. at (a) quiet: in a state of quietness; = at peace at peace n. Phrases 3. Also with adjectives, as good, better, etc. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > in a state of inactivity [phrase]
at resta1500
at (a) quiet1603
the mind > emotion > pleasure > freedom from trouble, care, or sorrow > free from trouble, care, or sorrow [phrase]
at easec1330
at (a) quiet1603
in the sun1604
society > authority > subjection > obedience > [adjective] > orderly of state or society
well-ruleda1387
civil1581
policied1596
at (a) quiet1603
policed1603
unrioted1627
untumultuated1659
policized1840
eunomic1952
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 62 The other Christian princes also being at no better quiet.
1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra (1676) iv. 68 He began to be at a little better quiet.
1663 S. Pepys Diary 30 June (1971) IV. 206 My differences with my uncle Tho. at a good quiett, blessed be God.
1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) i. 21 Every part of it is at quiet till it is put in motion.
1707 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Wks. (1715) 384 I have here in my Custody, said she, a little Simper de cockit that will not let me be at quiet.
1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft viii. 266 The country remained at quiet.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 54 Mr. Utterson began..to grow more at quiet with himself.
1975 K. A. McClane Out beyond Bay 66 The stream grates its firmament till it lies at quiet.
†b. out of quiet: in or into a state of conflict or anxiety; troubled, distressed. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > [adjective]
reigheOE
drofc1000
druvyOE
restlessOE
worya1225
forstraughtc1386
unquertc1390
unsaughtc1390
ill (evil) at easea1400
unrofula1400
unquietc1400
unrestya1413
unquieted?a1425
unrestful?c1425
unpeaceda1475
out of quieta1500
inquiet?1504
uneasya1513
perturbed1538
unquietous?1545
disquieted?1548
astraught1564
astraughted1565
agitate1567
turmoiled1570
disquiet1587
distroubled1590
weltered1590
disturbed1593
twitcheda1594
troublesome1596
stract1598
uncomposed1601
discomposed1603
incomposed1608
uncouth1660
unserene1664
chagrin1665
agitated1684
perturbated1704
disordered1711
perturbate1741
chagrineda1754
nervish1760
uncomfortable1796
funked1831
untranquillized1831
streaked1833
striped1839
discomfortable1844
streaky1848
bothered1851
funked out1859
bebothered1866
disorderly1871
fantod1883
rattled1885
aflap1887
shook1891
dicked-up1967
torqued1967
weirded out1973
a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 46 (MED) An evel conscience is euer dredful & oute of quiete [L. timida, et inquieta].
1577 Test. XII Patriarchs (1604) 101 Bear your losses willingly, and be not out of quiet for it.
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 437 These lads drink the Land out of quiet.
1731 R. Clap Mem. (1929) 9 God was pleased to make my Conscience to be out of quiet, which made me pray to God.
P2. colloquial. on the quiet: privately; in secret; cf. on the (strict) q.t. at q.t. n.3
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [adverb]
privement?c1225
privilya1250
asidesc1384
out of commonaltya1400
privatelyc1425
privatec1443
asidec1460
in private1469
under the rose1546
closely1552
on private1582
in particular1585
retiredly1599
sotto voce1819
in camera1826
on the quiet1856
on the (strict) q.t.1885
1856 Times 31 May 11/4 I had a letter on the quiet from Emma last week, and she wants me to scarper.
1881 Punch 8 Jan. 4/1 I'd just like to have a bit of chinwag with you on the quiet about the..troubles of a Cabby.
1937 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 13 Aug. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 68 It's much better recouping Pete on the quiet like this.
1967 N. Freeling Strike Out 36 She has a good act of letting Francis rule the roost, but on the quiet I think she makes the decisions.
2005 A. Gibbons Blood Pressure 54 They sell the classics for a pound each in this remainder shop in town. I get them on the quiet. My friends don't know.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

quietadj.adv.

Brit. /ˈkwʌɪət/, U.S. /ˈkwaɪət/
Forms:

α. Middle English quit, Middle English quyeet, Middle English quyte, Middle English qwiet, Middle English qwiete, Middle English qwyete, Middle English–1500s quiete, Middle English–1500s quyete, Middle English–1600s quyet, Middle English– quiet, 1500s quiate, 1500s–1600s quiett, 1500s–1600s quyett, 1600s queat, 1600s queit, 1800s– quate (south-west midlands and Irish English (lnorthern)), 1800s– quite (Lancashire), 1900s– quait (Irish English (northern)), 1900s– quayit (English regional (Devon)), 1900s– quient (U.S. regional); Scottish pre-1700 quayt, pre-1700 queat, pre-1700 queet, pre-1700 queyt, pre-1700 queytt, pre-1700 quiatt, pre-1700 quiete, pre-1700 quiett, pre-1700 quiette, pre-1700 quiit, pre-1700 quit, pre-1700 quoyet, pre-1700 quoyit, pre-1700 quyat, pre-1700 quyatt, pre-1700 quyet, pre-1700 quyete, pre-1700 quyett, pre-1700 quyiat, pre-1700 quyiet, pre-1700 quyit, pre-1700 quyt, pre-1700 qwiet, pre-1700 qwiette, pre-1700 qwyet, pre-1700 qwyete, pre-1700 qwyett, pre-1700 qwyette, pre-1700 qyett, pre-1700 1700s– quait, pre-1700 1700s– quiet, pre-1700 1900s– queyet, 1800s quaete, 1800s quaiet, 1800s quayet, 1800s– quaite, 1800s– quate, 1900s– quaeit, 1900s– quaet, 1900s– quaiat, 1900s– quet, 1900s– queyit, 1900s– qui't, 1900s– quite.

β. 1500s whaiet, 1900s– whiet (English regional (northern)); Scottish pre-1700 quhat, pre-1700 quheit, pre-1700 quhiet, 1800s– whiet (Orkney and Shetland), 1900s– whyat (Orkney).

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French quiet, quiete; Latin quiētus.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French quiet, also quiete quiet, tranquil, in Anglo-Norman also ‘free, exempt’ (mid 13th cent. in Old French; French quiet , now archaic and rare; compare the more common forms cited at quit adj.) and its etymon classical Latin quiētus in a state of rest, asleep, inactive, making no noise, tranquil, undisturbed, free from war, at peace, free from agitation, (of the sea, atmosphere) free from storms, calm (e.g. quiēta statiō sheltered anchorage (Caesar); compare sense A. 11), in post-classical Latin also (of a debt) discharged (7th cent.), exempt, quit (9th cent.; frequently from 11th cent. in British sources; also as quittus : see quit adj.), use as adjective of past participle of quiēscere to come to rest, to be quiet (see quiesce v.). Compare Old Occitan quet , Catalan quiet (1490), Spanish quedo (13th cent.), Portuguese quieto (15th cent.), Italian quieto (14th cent.). Compare also French coi quiet, still (now arch.: see coy adj.). With use as adverb compare earlier quietly adv.Attested earlier as a surname, Nicholas Quiet (1254), although it is unclear whether this reflects the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word. On the β. forms see discussion at Q n.
A. adj.
I. Causing no disturbance; making little sound.
1. Peaceable or tranquil by nature; placid, gentle; reserved.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > calmness > meekness or mildness > [adjective]
stillc825
tamec888
mildeOE
lithea1000
daftc1000
meekc1325
lambishc1374
meeklyc1375
benign1377
temperatec1380
quieta1382
gall-lessa1398
mansuetea1425
meeta1425
unwrathful1542
rageless1578
lamb-like?1592
mildya1603
milky1602
pigeon-livered1604
placid1614
spleenless?1615
passive1616
unprovokable1646
milken1648
uncaptious1661
stomachless1727
unindignant1789
pianoa1817
ireless1829
unquarrelsome1830
quiet-goinga1835
uncholeric1834
unoffendable1839
baby-milda1845
quiet-tempered1846
turtlish1855
pathic1857
the mind > emotion > pleasure > freedom from trouble, care, or sorrow > [adjective]
sorrowlessOE
carelessa1000
restful1340
clearc1374
unsada1450
undiseased?c1450
unoffendedc1450
undistroubled1466
frank1477
unvexed1485
quiet1535
secure1545
griefless1552
trouble-void1559
woeless1568
undistressed1582
tearless1603
cocksure1613
undejected1613
undisquieted1627
uncareful1635
serene1640
indisconsolatea1645
trouble-free1648
catastematic1656
thoughtless1659
incruciated1661
easy1692
undepressed1697
unsufferinga1732
ungloomed1737
solute1742
unanxious1742
undarkened1742
unsighinga1743
comfortable1770
unharassed1796
unworried1818
gloomless1820
ungroaning1821
unpestered1824
ungrieving1837
troubleless1838
unsaddened?c1840
untrespassed1854
unannoyed1865
unfretted1870
fretless1878
worriless1889
stress-free1898
unstressed1927
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 2 Paralip. xiv. 6 He bilde vp strengþid cytes in Juda, for quyeet [a1425 L.V. in reste; L. quietus] he was, & none in his tyme batailes risen.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 167 (MED) The peple of the sowthe is meke and quiete [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. esier and more mylde]; the peple of þe northe is more moveable and cruelle.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. xxiii. B The sonne which shal be borne vnto the, shal be a quyete man.
1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 26 The good quiet people..at length grew in disliking with their pastor.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Micah iv. comm. Quiet patient people..suffering persecution with alacritie of minde.
1669 Earl of Clarendon Ess. in Tracts (1727) 148 Quiet and easy natures are like fair weather.
a1720 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. Pref. 18 They always were quiet and never made any resistance.
1790 A. Alison Ess. Taste ii. ii. 169 The tone of Indignation..to a man of a quiet and placid temper, is unpleasant.
1811 Sporting Mag. 38 212 The defendant did not put the question..whether it were a quiet horse?
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge vi. 269 Barnaby is not in his quietest humour to-night.
1863 Q. Rev. July 262 It is a great relief to quiet people when the Easter ceremonies are wound up.
1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness in Youth i. 61 Fresleven was the gentlest, quietest creature that ever walked on two legs.
1931 P. S. Buck Good Earth i. 26 One was his next-door neighbor, Ching, a small, quiet man, ever unwilling to speak unless he were compelled to it.
1990 W. Chen in S. Brown Caribbean New Wave 53 Perhaps it was his quiet nature which impressed us, his ambling, carefree nonchalance.
2.
a. Of a person or animal: causing little or no disturbance or commotion; not moving or acting; remaining at rest; (in later use esp.) making little or no noise. to keep (someone) quiet: to keep in a state of quietness or tranquillity; (esp.) to prevent from disclosing information, protesting, etc. to keep quiet: to remain in a state of quietness or tranquillity; (esp.) to refrain from disclosing information, protesting, etc.In quot. 1651: asleep.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > [adjective] > silent
coyc1330
stone-still1338
quietc1384
softa1393
peacec1400
swownc1400
tongueless1447
clumc1485
mutec1500
whist1513
silent1542
dead1548
husht1557
whisted1557
whust1558
whust1558
whisht1570
huisht1576
quiet (also mum, mute, still, etc.) as a mouse (in a cheese)1584
fordead1593
noiseless1608
whisha1612
dumba1616
soundlessa1616
st1655
silentish1737
defta1763
sleeping1785
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whisperless1863
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the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [adjective] > specifically of people or animals
queemlOE
quietc1384
cosh1803
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Thess. iv. 11 We preyen ȝou..that ȝe be quyet [L. quieti] and do ȝoure nede.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxvijv Obteyne of the Clergie, that they wyll be quiet, tyll suche tyme as the other States may declare [etc.].
1581 N. Woodes Conflict of Conscience iii. iv Ay wawd he wer brunt that ay mawght be whaiet.
a1650 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1843) III. 406 Mr. Edmund Hay..laboured to keepe him [sc. Smeton] quiett, that he kythe not an adversarie against them.
1651 A. Weldon Court & Char. King James (new ed.) 107 Loveston replies, He is quiet (which in the Scotish dialect is fast asleep).
1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 16 Let gae my Hands, I say, be quait.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 56 I wish, you would be quiet, you have more Tricks than a Dancing Bear.
1843 E. Miall in Nonconformist 3 635 Rebecca's rights once obtained we will be as quiet as mice.
1880 Daily News 1 July Being told he must keep quiet or be arrested he subsided.
1896 M. Williams in J. Aaron View across Valley (1999) ii. 26 I'll bide quiet a wee, and look around.
1922 W. Lewis in Eng. Rev. Apr. 393 To make the majority of men feel comfortable and keep them quiet, the notion of the dignity of toil..was long ago invented.
1938 R. Wright Lawd Today! (1963) i. i. 16 He was quiet because he had won; she was quiet because she had lost.
1967 G. Vidal In Yellow Wood x. 146 They were all three quiet, thinking of questions and answers.
1999 M. Thorne Eight Minutes Idle (2001) xvii. 331 Adrienne sits staring at me, keeping quiet.
2000 S. Brett Body on Beach (2001) v. 35 Sometimes..people get shot just to keep them quiet. To make sure they don't say anything.
b. Of a thing: moving or stirring very little; inactive; still. Also (esp. in later use): making little or no noise; (of a sound) subdued, muted; opposed to loud.In quots. 1612, 1658: = quiescent adj. 2a (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > written character > [adjective] > of letter, not sounded, specifically in Hebrew
quiet1612
quiescent1629
otiant1852
the world > action or operation > inaction > [adjective]
undiscurrent1509
idlec1522
sleepinga1538
silent1583
unactive1599
passive1604
quiescent1605
torpid1613
quieta1616
inactive1641
actionless1645
slumbering1706
slumberous1809
non-acting1838
supine1843
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adjective] > silent
quiescent1629
quiet1658
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 123 In springinge tyme..þe see restiþ & is quyete [L. mare quiescit], foules singiþ and makeþ here nestis.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. 291 (MED) Of see quyete [L. puro et quieto], vptaketh they maryne Water purest.
1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors f. 43v We see euery night, the image of the starres in calme and quiet standing waters.
1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xv. cxiv. f. 237v/2 It stretcheth to the aire that is quiet aboue, after this troublous aire.
1612 H. Ainsworth Bk. Psalmes Englished with Annot. cxxvii. 312 Therefore also the Hebrue word Shena is written with א a quiet dumm letter.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. ii. 35 For Pistoll, hee hath a killing Tongue, and a quiet Sword. View more context for this quotation
1658 P. Goodwin Myst. Dreams in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1886) VII. Ps. cxxvii. 2 The Hebrew word..being with aleph, a quiet or resting letter.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 178 I was surpriz'd to see the Sea all smooth and quiet, no Ripling, no Motion, no Current.
1776 W. Dodd Serm. 10 March 29 The calm and quiet voice of conscience will speak peace and applause to your own hearts.
1798 W. Wordsworth Lines Tintern Abbey in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 204 An eye made quiet by the power Of harmony.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. iii. 50 The dust was very ancient, peaceful, quiet dust, about an hour ago.
1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter 185 He was conscious of a certain regular and quiet sound.
1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (London ed.) I. v. 319 The peaceful, simple, melodious tintinnabulation [of cowbells] came floating unbroken through the quiet, thin, empty air.
1969 J. Gaskell Sweet Sweet Summer 104 My ears are attuned to catch quiet tones more than extrovert ones.
2002 Nature Conservancy Summer 78/1 The fly..will make a quiet plip as it hits the water.
3.
a. Originally Scottish. Avoiding or escaping notice; clandestine, secret; private, confidential; surreptitious; unobtrusive. Formerly also (of a place): †hidden, concealed (obsolete). to keep (something) quiet: to refrain from disclosing information about something.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [adjective] > conducted in private
sunderlyeOE
quiet1488
strict1606
secret1667
in camera1899
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 593 A quiet hous as scho mycht hald in wer.
1500 Justiciary Rec. I. 153 This ȝoung gentilman fosterit with sik fair quyet flattre was allurit in this manir.
1531 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hist. & Chron. Scotl. (Morgan) i. 81 Ane novmer of armyt men..ruschit owte of ane qwyett place.
1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour ii. sig. Kiiv Tyll put hym in ane quyet place Quhare he mycht se the kyngis grace And be on sene with ony wycht.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 87 He..send quyit messagis to his freindis.
a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xviii. 65 Thair companie [it] wes not quyet, Bot or they wist they wer beuryde.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem (Acts Robt. III, c. 2) 52 The kings lieges, are trubled in their lands, be volunter and quyet recognitions, made be the overlords.
1633 Court Bk. Bishopric of Orkney f. 85v Shoe wold tell hir something giff shoe wold keip it quoyit.
a1734 J. Hog Mem. (1798) vi. 81 He was at all pains..to prevail with that reverend brother for giving him his assistance towards kepping the matter quiet.
1780 Compl. Hist. Simple John 3 I maun hae..a quiet speak to hersel about it.
1869 J. G. Austin Cipher xxxviii. 160 He surely would see that the way to serve you is to keep the matter as quiet as possible.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 29 Dec. 8/2 ‘Quiet cases’ meaning the insurance of lives without the knowledge of the persons so insured.
1915 Proc. Amer. Assoc. Dining Car Superintendents xv. 44 We instruct our stewards to, in a quiet way, get around to one of the party and ascertain whether one or more checks are desired.
1960 S. Barstow Kind of Loving (1962) i. v. 102 David..gives me a quiet wink.
1995 Loaded July 78/2 Back in those days, if you'd gone over the top, the referee would have a quiet word in your ear and warn you not to do it again.
2003 S. Brett Murder in Museum xv. 120 It's not the sort of thing you can keep quiet for long.
†b. Scottish. Of a person: living in seclusion; remaining concealed; acting secretly or clandestinely. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [adjective]
reclusedc1443
quiet1507
withdrawing1576
secluse1597
reclusive1600
secluded1604
recluse1608
withdrawn?1615
sequestering1620
monastica1631
anchorite1639
solitousa1656
sequestered1658
snug1710
hermitish1812
anchoritish1823
umbratic1839
Garboesque1928
Garboic1937
1507 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 437 And the personis infectit sale keip thame quyat in thar housis..quhill thai be haill.
1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 17 Thay that ar quiet and fals flatterers.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. x. vii. f. 137v/1 Traistyng..sum quiet personis liand ay in wait to inuaid hym.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 349 Bot the Cumin..sendis a quyet messinger with wrytingis to King Edward.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 444 I could not beleeue, that the Patrone of so great a Monarchy, could be so quiet; yea, as quiet as a Countrey Baron is with vs.
4. Free from excess; not extreme; moderate, modest; restrained; understated; (also of colour) muted, subdued.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective]
light?c1225
moderatea1398
sober1398
weakc1400
meanly?a1425
treatablec1450
slenderc1475
remiss1550
quiet1560
unpassionatea1600
relaxative1611
the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adjective] > modest or unpretentious specifically of things
modest1582
lowly1637
submiss1638
verecundiousa1639
unambitious1713
quiet1768
chastea1797
unassuminga1807
unshowy1838
low-keyed1878
low key1897
the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > simplicity > [adjective]
plainc1330
simplea1382
neat1453
natural1553
austere1581
bare1583
unintricated1649
severe1665
clever1674
light1740
ungaudy1795
unassuminga1807
inartificial1823
quiet1838
unpretentious1838
unabstract1840
uninvolved1853
penny-plain1854
simplex munditiis1874
unstagy1882
clinical1932
shibui1947
understated1957
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries xviii. f. cclxjv That for the appeasing of religion, they would vse lawfull and quiet [L. tranquillis] remedies.
1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. viii. f. 23v What it [sc. scholerlike exercise] doth profite Diuinitie, I see not, whose chiefest Logike doth consiste in quiet and plaine communication [L. cuius summa dialectica est in oratione constituta].
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 5 Now you shall haue a quiet breath and gale, and suddenly an vnexpected violent gust.
1685 J. Dryden tr. Horace Odes iii. xxix, in Sylvæ sig. K4 The tide of bus'ness..Is sometimes high, and sometimes low, A quiet ebb, or a tempestuous flow.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 63 I made them a quiet bow,..wishing them a good passage to Dover.
1791 A. Seward Lett. (1811) III. 80 The quiet dispassionate simplicity of unritual devotion.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. v. 40 A woman of quiet and pleasing exterior.
1853 C. Brontë Villette I. xiv. 257 Her dress was almost as quiet as mine.
1889 Catholic News 15 June 8/6 There was a quiet trade in pigs.
1913 Times 10 Oct. 5/1 The general feeling here continues to be one of quiet confidence in the ability of the Army and Navy to safeguard the interests of the country.
1977 Spare Rib May 15/1 Quiet shades of blue, brown and grey were almost de rigueur.
2003 Daily Record (Nexis) 19 Nov. 30 We are now planning a quiet wedding just him, me and our immediate families.
5. Economics. Of a market, commodity, or traded asset: inactive; subject to little trading activity and minimal price fluctuations.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [adjective] > feeling or state of market
sensitive1813
bearish1827
light1827
quiet1833
easy1836
soft1849
weak1856
steady1857
buoyant1868
sick1870
swimming1870
featureless1879
bullish1882
firm1887
gravelly1887
technical1889
pippy1892
manipulated1903
thin1931
volatile1931
trendless1939
nervous1955
toppy1961
over-bullish1970
toppish1983
1833 Times 5 Aug. 3/1 Liverpool Cotton Market... We have had a quiet market this week, without any material change in prices.
1844 Alton (Illinois) Tel. & Democratic Rev. 9 Nov. The cotton market is quiet and steady.
1884 Edinb. Courant 31 Mar. 6/6 Money easy. Cotton firm. Petroleum quiet... Stocks opened quiet but firm.
1886 Times 8 Feb. 11 Canadian Pacific shares were quiet, and declined 1/ 8.
1989 Investors Chron. 27 Jan. 30/3 The new company hopes to raise £5m from its share offer evidently planning to invest the proceeds while the market remains quiet.
1999 National Post's Financial Post & FP Investing (Canada) (Nexis) 16 Feb. d2 Public holidays in other key markets..kept European commodities quiet yesterday.
6. Physics. Of a period or region: marked by no local fluctuations of magnetism.
ΚΠ
1890 Proc. Physical Soc. 10 440 The mean diurnal range [of magnetic variation] for each year was found by Wild's method—the hourly ordinates for about five quiet days in each month being measured.
1937 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 236 220 No curve has been drawn for Tromsö, because scarcely any echoes were obtained, although the day was exceptionally quiet magnetically.
1974 Nature 13 Sept. 129/1 The seamount possesses a strong magnetic signature..in marked contrast to the main part of the Rockall Trough which is magnetically quiet.
2001 Geophysical Res. Lett. 28 119/2 On magnetically quiet days, after 22:00 LT, the estimated drifts fall into a pattern which is close to that of the ambient plasma drift.
7. Astronomy. Of the sun, a region of it, or a part of the solar cycle: not especially active; spec. marked by the absence (or a minimal number) of sunspots. Of other celestial objects: = radio-quiet adj. at radio n. Compounds 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > sun > solar activity > [adjective] > radiation
active1882
quiet1897
the world > the universe > radio source > [adjective]
radio-quiet1959
radio-silent1966
quiet1977
radio-loud1978
1897 Philos. Trans. 1896 (Royal Soc.) A. 187 607 The Italian observations of the quiet solar atmosphere and the Kensington observations of sun-spots may be especially mentioned.
1946 Nature 2 Nov. 632/2 Edlén's recent work..shows that the coronal matter is normally at a temperature approaching 106 degrees. We should therefore expect to find black-body radiation of about 1 metre wave-length having a normal (quiet sun) intensity corresponding nearly to T = 106.
1961 I.U.G.G. Chron. No. 34. 6 To December 1963 (i.e. approximately up to the commencement of the proposed International Year of the Quiet Sun).
1963 Daily Tel. 18 Mar. 19 (heading) 60 nations will seek ‘quiet sun’ secrets.
1977 Sci. Amer. Aug. 32/1 A number of giant elliptical galaxies radiate prodigiously at radio wavelengths, where stars and normal galaxies are quiet.
1983 J. S. Hey Radio Universe (ed. 3) v. 87 The parts of the solar surface and atmosphere well away from any solar activity are known as quiet regions.
1999 C. Vita-Finzi in P. Slack Environments & Hist. Change ii. 42 At low sunspot levels (‘quiet sun’) a strong circumpolar vortex—a zonal pattern—is favoured.
II. Free from disturbance or noise.
8.
a. Characterized by absence of commotion or bustle; free from discord or strife; (also) free from noise or uproar.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [adjective]
stillc1275
coyc1330
restful1340
quieta1382
peaceablec1384
peacefula1400
undisturbleda1400
somec1460
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reposeda1533
unnoyed1543
calma1568
halcyon1570
calmya1586
quietsome1595
halcyonian1602
undisturbeda1610
halcedonian1611
tranquila1616
tranquillous1638
slumbering1645
halcydon1648
smooth1757
slumberous1765
stilly1776
sleeping1785
unfrenzied1805
Sabbath-like1824
unbustling1826
eddyless1862
restinga1865
pacific1865
Sabbatismal1881
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > [adjective] > silent > of places or times
stillc1275
quieta1382
silent1559
as silent as the grave1613
cosh1803
soundless1816
voiceless1816
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 1 Paralip. iv. 40 Þei fowndyn most plenteuous leswes & ful goode & most large lond & quyete [L.V. restful; L. quietam].
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 155 Þat þe day be quiete [?c1425 Paris stille] and bryȝt, nouȝt turble ne raynee.
?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Avj Wedlocke was quyet, and pleasaunt without stryfe.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. i. 25 I could be well content, To entertaine the lag end of my life With quiet houres. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Wisd. xviii. 14 While all things were in quiet silence. View more context for this quotation
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 24 He chose a quiet County, before a cumbersom Kingdom.
1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals I. 216 Book-keeping, was too quiet an Employment, for one of Leve's warm Disposition.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest II. x. 83 In the second chamber all was quiet and in order.
1831 E. Burton Lect. Eccl. Hist. i. i. 12 If the state of things might be described at all as quiet.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xvi. 158 He was visited by as many as three grave doctors..and the room was so quiet..that he even knew the difference in the sound of their watches.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxiv. 204 We gave two quiet hours to the memory of our dead brother.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 10 Aug. 10/1 The streets of Soho are unusually quiet; the trotter girl, with her bundle of coats or trousers, is almost a curiosity.
1974 Times 30 Dec. 6/5 There were embarrassing moments when the ground was so quiet that the only noise was the whistling wind and the referee's shouts of ‘go on, go on’.
1999 S. Stewart Sharking xi. 182 It was still fairly quiet and I hung around the bar chatting to Tim.
b. Of a place: situated away from activity; in a remote or tranquil location; secluded. Chiefly Scottish in early use; cf. sense A. 3a.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [adjective] > specifically of places
quiet?a1513
sleepy1851
slumberous1863
Zenned-out1968
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 239 In quyet place..Thai can, percace, purches sic grace.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 187 They..past to the wall heid at ane quyit place quhair the watches might haue no sight of them.
1641 R. Baillie Let. 20 Aug. in Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 376 If he did remove, he would not go to St. Andrewes, bot [to] some quiet little landward charge.
a1712 T. Halyburton Great Concern Salvation (1721) i. 103 Whenever ye go home this Night, get into some quiet Corner or other, and there betake you to God in Prayer.
a1771 T. Gray Imit. Propertius in Wks. (1814) II. 89 Then to my quiet urn awhile draw near.
1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion ii. 67 A quiet treeless nook. View more context for this quotation
1862 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II. xi. 110 He and Lady Ascot were seated together on a quiet sofa.
1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth i. iii. 45 He would sit for hours staring at the sea-line from a quiet corner of the verandah.
1968 G. Daws Shoal of Time iii. 82 Up to the quiet retreat of Manoa valley behind Honolulu.
2000 M. Keyes Sushi for Beginners (2001) lii. 441 Jack, worn out from glad-handing, had found a quiet seat in a corner and fallen gratefully into it.
c. Of an activity, pastime, etc.: partaken of or enjoyed in tranquillity.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [adjective] > partaken of or enjoyed in quiet
quiet1772
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [adjective] > partaken in seclusion
quiet1772
1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. v. vi. 357 Come, come, Cecilia, let's have a quiet meal, and no splitting of sculls.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxvi. 271 To have a quiet cup of tea.
1892 ‘F. Anstey’ Voces Populi 2nd Ser. 85 A cup of coffee, and a quiet cigar.
1901 H. H. Peerless Diary 5 Aug. in Brief Jolly Change (2003) 62 Millie and I go for a quiet stroll down to the green, where we listen to a troupe of singers.
1963 E. Summers Where No Roads Go v. 72 I'll go out on the verandah for a quiet smoke.
1995 C. Bateman Divorcing Jack ii. 17 It didn't start out as anything more than a few quiet drinks with a stranger, but the drink and the time flew in.
d. Of a period of time: set aside for the purpose of private prayer, meditation, or religious study; frequently in quiet day, quiet time, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > prayer > [noun] > session of
quiet time1884
society > faith > worship > prayer > [adjective] > time for prayer
quiet1884
society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > [noun] > reading of > session of
reading1814
quiet time1884
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > contemplation or meditation > [adjective] > of period of time
quiet1884
1884 Lichfield Diocesan Mag. Jan. 10 A Quiet day, to which all the clergy and lay readers of the archdeaconry were invited, was held at Stoke, on Tuesday Dec. 18th.
1934 R. Macaulay Going Abroad xxx. 263 That must have been about the same time I was having my quiet time.
1935 Methodist Recorder 1 Aug. 5/4 A large number of ministers assembled..for the ‘Quiet Day’.
1957 J. R. W. Stott Being a Christian 23 What many people call the daily ‘quiet times’, first thing in the morning and last thing at night.
1973 Franciscan 15 169 A quiet afternoon during the Pentecost season was conducted by the Dean of Worcester.
2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 23 Feb. t30 The Shalem Institute will hold a ‘Multifaith Quiet Day’ from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
9. Free from interference, or annoyance; undisturbed; left in peace.
a. Of a state, condition, procedure, etc. anything for a quiet life: see life n. 12b. quiet enjoyment (Law): the possession of real property undisturbed by any superior claim.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [adjective] > specifically of a state, condition, or procedure
quietc1384
calm1667
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Tim. ii. 2 I biseche..that we lede quyet and pesyble lyf [L. quietam et tranquillam vitam].
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 3720 (MED) Þe nyght þat þan ensued In quiete prayers he contenued.
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Ei A quyete slepe is right necessary and delycious.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xciiijv If they maye haue their Religion quiet vntill the counsell, they are also contented to become contributaries.
1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 96 They sent..to Cæsar, to intreat a quiet passage through the Romane prouince.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State ix. 23 Though prayer purchaseth blessings, giving praise doth keep the quiet possession of them.
1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 43. ⁋2 A disturbed Liberty is better than a quiet servitude.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 304 The grantor may covenant..for the grantee's quiet enjoyment.
1874 C. Schorlemmer Man. Chem. Carbon Compounds 146 Chloral hydrate..acts as a sedative and antispasmodic, producing anæsthesia and a quiet sleep.
1920 Glasgow Herald 1 July 6/4 A quiet continuance of the existing regime will allow..a regroupment without any definite break in development.
1983 Biogr. Mem. Fellows Royal Soc. 29 485 One might have expected a quiet continuation in Denmark of Nørlund's mathematical work, but events in 1923..changed his life.
1996 P. Wilde Which? Guide to Renting & Letting (rev. ed.) ix. 132 It is an implied term of every tenancy that the landlord will allow his tenant ‘quiet enjoyment’ of the premises.
†b. Of a person, people, or country. Also with from. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. xiv. 6 Thei..nuryshen bateils and mouen discenciouns, nether suffren the rewme for to be quyet [L. quietum].
1558 C. Goodman How Superior Powers 175 Hauing your Realme free from strangers, and quiete from all enimies.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 242 While she is heere, a man may liue as quiet in hell, as in a sanctuarie. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Job iii. 26 I was not in safetie, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet . View more context for this quotation
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 102 That the Abbot should be quiet from the Bishops Right.
a1686 J. Gordon Hist. Scots Affairs (1841) III. 88 This summer the Highlands and north wer reasonable qwyett, little or nothing falling out ther considerable.
1718 S. Centlivre Bold Stroke for Wife v. 56 I hop'd to have been quiet, when once I had put on your odious Formality [sc. a Quaker dress] here.
a1731 P. Aubin Noble Slaves in Coll. Entertaining Hist. & Novels (1739) I. xvii. 136 I remained quiet from all Clamours but my Conscience, which hourly reproached me.
†c. Free, clear (of a debt). Obsolete. rare.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > [adjective] > clear of or free from obligation
quit?c1225
quiet1473
1473–4 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 16 iiij s. vij d. the which ben forgeven them..and so they ben quyete.
10. Of a person, the mind, the conscience, etc.: untroubled; free from agitation or anxiety.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > calmness > [adjective] > untroubled
untormentedc1374
unstrainedc1400
unscourgedc1412
quietc1460
untroubled1484
secure1545
unstricken1548
unplagued1549
unoppressed1559
incurious1570
secure1578
undistressed1582
unclouded1598
unpangeda1625
indisturbed1664
unpained1667
ungrieved1676
smooth1757
unhaunted1818
unteased1843
unfazed1855
all serene1856
unfussed1907
unthrown1959
OK1978
c1460 Tree & 12 Frutes (McClean) (1960) 152 (MED) Yif..such a chast mayde must nedis speke of þe causes of matrimony..sche felith her flessh so quiete and restfulle with such communicacioun as þough sche spak of stonys.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xv. B A quyete herte is as a contynuall feast.
1558 C. Goodman How Superior Powers 230 That you cannot be quiete in conscience.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 96 Truth hath a quiet brest. View more context for this quotation
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes i. §5. 8 The bond of a Creditor, so lies on the debter, that he is not quiet till it be discharged.
1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh Ep. Ded. 11 Men..possessing rifles with as quiet a conscience as just earnings.
1746 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 1747 A quiet Conscience sleeps in Thunder, but Rest and Guilt live far asunder.
1772 Test Filial Duty II. 88 Unagitated by alternate hope and fear, the heart is quiet.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 122 Thought resign'd, A healthy frame, a quiet mind.
1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter 93 Is it not strange..that you and I..should stand here, in the sight of God, with what we call clean hands and quiet consciences?
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Sept. 670/1 The difficulties of governing Ireland and keeping the Nonconformist conscience quiet.
1970 M. Lutyens Penguin Krishnamurti Reader I. 89 It is that quiet mind, that still mind, which brings about transformation.
1993 ‘E. Peters’ Holy Thief (BNC) 179 Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then, for want of a quiet mind.
†11. Sheltered from the wind. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [adjective] > of the nature of a shelter > sheltered > from the weather
lee?a1500
quiet1596
shaded1635
queem1673
lew1674
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 30 In the scoug of the craig and castell is a verie quyet hauining place [L. quieta nauium statio].
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 122 For thy Bees a quiet Station find [L. sedes..statioque], And lodge 'em under Covert of the Wind. View more context for this quotation
B. adv.
= quietly adv. Now chiefly colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [adverb]
softOE
i-semelichec1275
peaceablya1382
restfully1433
quietly1488
quietously1546
restly1561
quiet1568
calmly1597
reposedly1598
lowna1600
undisturbedly1647
peacefully1667
tranquilly1756
stilly1802
lownly1820
reposefully1852
sleepily1873
1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS f. 261v In cloikis thay cum full quyet cled.
1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 24 More profite is quieter found, (where pastures in seuerall bee).
1600 in Facsimiles National MSS Scotl. (1871) III. p. lxxvi I think it sall be meittest to be convoyit quyetest in ane bote.
1764 J. Boswell Jrnl. 4 July in Boswell on Grand Tour (1953) I. 19 I returned to Potsdam, dined quiet.
1857 C. M. Yonge Dynevor Terrace II. xviii. 291 Go home quiet and look about you.
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. i. iii. 44 I hardly blame Thomasin Yeobright and neighbour Wildeve for doing it quiet.
a1903 W. P. Merrick in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 391/1 [W. Midlands] Them there bicycles goes along so quiet that they pretty near overrides you afore you knows they're a comin.
1945 S. O'Casey Drums Under Windows in Autobiogr. I. (1980) 450 Two neatly-clad keepers..asked Sean if the patient was likely to go quiet.
1997 Y. M. Murray Locas 113 Star Girl's stepping back, looking at me quiet cause she sees I'm so spitfired I was ready to pull some out and cut him.

Compounds

C1.
a.
quiet-eyed adj.
ΚΠ
1823 J. Neal Seventy-six I. x. 181 You are a stout hearted fellow, John—blood does not appal you, quiet-eyed as you are.
1956 R. Finlayson in Landfall (N.Z.) X. 12 A handsome..Jersey, sleek and quiet eyed.
2005 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. (Nexis) 18 Nov. b1 Lewis Monroe, the Indiana point guard, a quiet-eyed, slender 6-foot-5 transfer from Auburn.
quiet-footed adj.
ΚΠ
1907 Ogden (Utah) Standard 2 Sept. 4/2 The quiet-footed, punctual, polite Japanese servants.
1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring i. ii. 62 Long after, but still very long ago, there lived by the banks of the Great River on the edge of Wilderland a clever-handed and quiet-footed little people.
2000 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 8 Mar. 85 Grey shadows moving through the bush, quiet-footed.
quiet-mannered adj.
ΚΠ
1831 Free Enquirer 31 Dec. 77/3 The landlord's very pretty, quiet-mannered daughter..set a cup of coffee before each of us.
1910 Times 28 Oct. 19/4 Much more often than not the former is an amiable, quiet-mannered young fellow who is decently educated.
2006 Boston Globe (Nexis) 7 May a1 The quiet-mannered Rhode Island congressman rarely gives fiery speeches.
quiet-minded adj.
ΚΠ
1594 in T. Rymer & R. Sanderson Fœdera (1715) XVI. 255/2 He should not use in this Treaty anie Men that gayne by War, or rash Wits, but rather wise and quiet minded Men, apt to consider of this matter with Reason and Wisdom.
1681 J. Somers Security Englishmen's Lives 87 Every quiet minded person will be equally exposed unto private injuries.
1718 D. Defoe Family Instructor II. i. iii. 116 The poor old Lady was a good quiet minded Creature, and repented heartily of her Passion.
1849 F. B. Head Stokers & Pokers iii. 39 That variety of free and easy well-worn costumes in which quiet-minded people usually travel.
1919 W. S. Davis Hist. France ii. 26 The convents had become the refuge for the idle as well as for the pious and quiet-minded.
2005 Oklahoman 31 July 20 a We're looking for a good, quiet-minded horse that can stand that kind of stimulus.
quiet-spoken adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adjective] > in speech
quiet-spoken1846
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iv. 25 He was a slow, quiet-spoken..old fellow.
1902 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 15 268 She was a gentle, quiet-spoken woman, living in her own thick-walled stone house.
1998 P. Williams Gangland (1999) 204 This quiet-spoken family man is part of a dying breed in the underworld—a so-called ordinary decent criminal.
quiet-tempered adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > calmness > meekness or mildness > [adjective]
stillc825
tamec888
mildeOE
lithea1000
daftc1000
meekc1325
lambishc1374
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lamb-like?1592
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pigeon-livered1604
placid1614
spleenless?1615
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unprovokable1646
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baby-milda1845
quiet-tempered1846
turtlish1855
pathic1857
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iii. 16 She was a quiet-tempered lady.
1929 Times 26 July 1/4 (advt.) Very large dark grey brindle bitch,..very quiet tempered, good with all stock.
2004 Boston Globe (Nexis) 26 Sept. b10 He was very distinguished and quiet-tempered.
quiet-tinted adj.
ΚΠ
1843 T. Bartlett New Holland vi. 161 Few persons..would estimate the beautiful but scentless, native flowers of New Holland beyond the more quiet-tinted, but sweet-smelling flowers of Great Britain.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 14 Sept. 1/2 It included the following: Shirts, 72;..socks of quiet-tinted silk, 2 dozen; hats, evening suits, smoking coats.
1919 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News & Sentinel 30 Jan. 11/2 A quiet tinted one [sc. violin] looks more artistic and shows better taste.
quiet-toned adj.
ΚΠ
1854 B. P. Shillaber Life & Sayings Mrs. Partington 384 A quiet tone is observable in the Russian organs!.. Quiet-toned organs!
1901 M. C. Dickerson Moths & Butterflies ii. 226 As if their fastidious taste allowed petticoats only of brilliant colors always to be worn beneath quiet-toned over-dresses.
2002 Time Out (Nexis) 6 Feb. 59 The book seems amiable and quiet-toned while managing to disturb and convince.
quiet-voiced adj.
ΚΠ
?1850 J. L. Michael John Cumberland 13 My Mother, gentle-ey'd, And quiet voiced..Telling the story in the twilight hour.
1940 T. S. Eliot East Coker ii. 9 Had they deceived us Or deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders.
2006 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 8 Sept. 92 Many of us..remember him equally for the amiable, quiet-voiced contributions to Sunday cricket on BBC2.
† quiet-walled adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1865 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 21 Those charms accepted of my inmost thought, The towers musical, quiet-walled grove.
b.
quiet-going adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > calmness > meekness or mildness > [adjective]
stillc825
tamec888
mildeOE
lithea1000
daftc1000
meekc1325
lambishc1374
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temperatec1380
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gall-lessa1398
mansuetea1425
meeta1425
unwrathful1542
rageless1578
lamb-like?1592
mildya1603
milky1602
pigeon-livered1604
placid1614
spleenless?1615
passive1616
unprovokable1646
milken1648
uncaptious1661
stomachless1727
unindignant1789
pianoa1817
ireless1829
unquarrelsome1830
quiet-goinga1835
uncholeric1834
unoffendable1839
baby-milda1845
quiet-tempered1846
turtlish1855
pathic1857
a1835 M. Scott Cruise of Midge (1836) i. 2 The old gentleman was rather a quiet-going codger.
1886 H. F. Lester Under Two Fig Trees 59 The exciting incidents which now and then ruffle the life of even the most quiet-going family.
1939 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 7 Mar. 16/4 A quiet going man of homely habits.
quiet-living adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adjective] > in way of life
quiet-living1846
1846 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 25 July 51/1 The total number of acts, movements, and occurrences of every kind in life must be much greater, even in the case of the most quiet-living people, than at first sight appears.
1936 Times 1 Dec. 10/3 The croquet player..may be taken as the type of all quiet-living, unheroic persons.
2006 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 19 Sept. 4 I'm a law abiding, quiet living person. I can't see why people can't leave me alone.
quiet-looking adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adjective] > in appearance
simplec1390
modest-looked1654
modest-looking1748
quiet-looking1772
1772 ‘V. Crancocc’ Trifles 71 He..with his elbow made the blood spring from the nose of a very quiet-looking little man.
1862 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe III. ii. 24 That quiet-looking commander of hers was going to race her out under steam the whole way.
1936 C. L. R. James Minty Alley iii. 19 A tall, heavily-built, quiet-looking youth of about twenty.
2006 Tri-City Herald (Kennewick, Washington) (Nexis) 7 June The river is nice and smooth and quiet looking... But it can kill you.
quiet-moving adj.
ΚΠ
1853 Southern Literary Messenger 19 308/2 This son—the quiet moving spirit—was a remarkably handsome, mild, gentlemanly man.
1935 Greeley (Colorado) Daily Tribune 28 May 1/4 A lot of government money is going to go down into many business wells... Take the quiet moving CCC, for instance.
1991 Independent (Nexis) 18 May 14 Does it also make him still more wary, fearful that a quiet-moving human may creep up on him unseen?
quiet-seeming adj.
ΚΠ
1661 Princess Cloria iv. 490 I resolved notwithstanding with a quiet seeming pacification to take my leave.
1780 S. J. Pratt Emma Corbett I. xxxii. 107 I can..impress the quiet-seeming sentiment.
1866 Harper's Mag. Nov. 745/1 I had not understood my sister hitherto—had not known how intense her quiet-seeming nature was.
1926 S. Anderson Tar v. xvi. 274 Two kinds of lives led by a lot of quietseeming men of the town.
2005 New Republic (Nexis) 7 Feb. 26 He recounts Pritchett's quiet-seeming but still extraordinary life with sympathetic care.
quiet-smiling adj.
ΚΠ
1952 R. Campbell tr. C. Baudelaire Poems 84 An huntress born, sure-eyed, and quiet-smiling.
C2.
quiet American n. [with allusion to Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American (1955)] a person likened to Graham Greene's character Alden Pyle, the ‘quiet American’, esp. in being involved in espionage, or in being naive or idealistic.
ΚΠ
1963 Listener 10 Jan. 96/3 She has much data on these delightful grasshopper people, though a certain ‘Quiet American’ ingenuousness is difficult to digest.
1973 Times 11 Jan. 10/6 There never was much ‘reality’ about Washington's presence in Vietnam from the moment when the first quiet Americans moved in.
1980 J. McNeil Spy Game ix. 99 I've heard of you..The Quiet American, no less.
2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Feb. 20/2 The Joe College-isms of Pyle..underline our sense that a quiet American is graduating from Harvard even now.
quiet disease n. Medicine rare asymptomatic or inactive disease; cf. quiescent adj. 1b, silent adj. 5b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > stage of disease > remission
remission?a1425
remise1603
quiet disease1886
1886 H. Marsh Dis. Joints x.148 The treatment of these cases of quiet disease must be the same as that of ordinary scrofulous mischief.
2005 Amer. Jrnl. Ophthalmol. 140 510/1 Studies of corticosteroid-sparing agents..in patients on chronic corticosteroid treatment with quiet disease.
quiet number n. Nautical slang an easy job or assignment; cf. number n. 6c.
ΚΠ
1928 G. Campbell My Myst. Ships xii. 226 It may appear that the men in the boats had a fairly ‘quiet’ number, after they had merely run the risk of being torpedoed.
1977 Navy News July 18 (caption) ‘Got a nice quiet number for you after the Review,’ he says... ‘Just scoop up any odd little bit of gash,’ he says.
2003 J. Gritten Full Circle vi. 94 A clean and comparatively quiet number since it was one-man watch-keeping and the only place where I saw the watchkeeper invariably with a paperback.
quiet period n. Stock Market (chiefly U.S.) a legally mandated period of time during and after the registration of a company's initial public offering in which the company is prohibited from publicly releasing any information which may affect share prices.
ΚΠ
1980 Barron's 6 Oct. 31/1 They just came out of the quiet period today and announced on the tape some oil discoveries and production figures.
2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Mar. c8/2 [They] declined to comment for this article, citing a need to observe the so-called quiet period before a company discloses material news.
quiet revolution n. a major social or political change achieved without violence or upheaval; spec. (Canadian) (usually with capital initials) a period of Liberal government in the province of Quebec under Jean Lesage (1960–6), characterized by social, economic, and educational reforms and a rise in Québecois nationalism. [With the spec. use compare French Révolution Tranquille (1967 or earlier), although the term was probably coined in English.]
ΚΠ
1786 W. Ross Present State Distillery Scotl. 101 It appeared to be a prudent, peacable, quiet revolution in our story.
1847 Times 6 Nov. 3/5 Would it be nothing, to achieve the quiet revolutions to good government which most native states require?
1965 S. Gordon & G. W. Wilson Canada Pref. p. xii The ‘quiet revolution’ in Quebec, the national flag, and so on have all been the subjects of lengthy and sometimes emotional discussion.
1994 Canad. Geographic Sept. 81/1 With the ‘Quiet Revolution’ in full swing, Quebec was asserting its place in the modern world.
2003 M. Abley Spoken Here xiv. 246 It's a quiet revolution from the long decades when pupils caught speaking Welsh wore a strap around their necks with a heavy piece of wood attached.
quiet room n. (a) a room in a psychiatric hospital or other institution in which a highly agitated or uncontrollable person may be confined; (b) a room set aside for quiet activities.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill > room in
rubber room1844
padded room1846
padded cell1862
pad1938
quiet room1938
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > others
hell1310
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summer parloura1425
paradise1485
fire room1591
garden room1619
ease-room1629
portcullis1631
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sluttery1711
rotunda1737
glass casea1777
dungeon1782
hall of mirrors1789
balcony-chamber1800
showroom1820
mirror room1858
vomitorium1923
mosquito room1925
refuge room1937
quiet room1938
Florida room1968
roomset1980
wet room1982
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > room for rest and quiet
restrooma1856
quiet room1938
1938 S. Beckett Murphy 167 The padded cells, known to the wittier as the ‘quiet rooms’, ‘rubber rooms’ or, in a notable clip ‘pads’.
1968 ‘M. Torrie’ Your Secret Friend i. 15 The Sixth have the boudoir as their ‘quiet’ room and the bedroom is now the staff common-room.
1977 Spare Rib Jan. 15/2 The second half of the day passes so quickly and imperceptibly that at first I don't grasp why it's suddenly got so noisy in our ‘quiet’ room.
2004 P. Raeburn Acquainted with Night ii. 49 He spent the morning in the ‘quiet room’, a small room used to confine patients who become angry or agitated and cannot be soothed, to ensure that they don't hurt themselves.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

quietv.

Brit. /ˈkwʌɪət/, U.S. /ˈkwaɪət/
Forms: Middle English quiet (past participle), Middle English quiete, Middle English quiete (past tense and past participle), Middle English quyete (past participle), Middle English quyete, 1500s quyet, 1500s– quiet, 1600s quiett; Scottish pre-1700 quet, pre-1700 quiett, pre-1700 quyattit (past participle), pre-1700 quyet, pre-1700 qwyet, pre-1700 1700s– quiet, 1800s quait, 1800s– quate.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: Latin quietare ; quiet adj.
Etymology: Partly < post-classical Latin quietare to become quiet (4th cent), to make quiet, put to rest (5th or 6th cent.), to discharge (frequently from 11th cent. in British sources; < classical Latin quiētus quiet adj.), and partly directly < quiet adj. Compare Catalan quedar (15th cent.; compare earlier aquedar (14th cent.)), Spanish quedar (12th cent.), Italian quietare to make quiet (a1308), to become quiet (a1321).
1.
a. transitive. To calm, abate, subdue (an emotion, feeling, fear, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > calmness > compose or make calm [verb (transitive)]
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lullc1386
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assuagec1400
mesec1400
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modify?a1439
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establish1477
pacify1484
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serenize1598
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recompose1611
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besoothe1614
unprovokea1616
halcyon1616
unstrain1616
leniate1622
tranquillize1623
unperplexa1631
belull1631
sedate1646
unmaze1647
assopiatea1649
serenate1654
serene1654
tranquillify1683
soothe1697
unalarm1722
reserene1755
quietize1791
peacify1845
quieten1853
conjure1856
peace1864
disfever1880
patise1891
de-tension1961
mellow1974
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 77v Slepe..quietiþ [L. quietat] & comfortiþ þe vertues of felinge & of mevinge.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 146 Be not þe corrosyf remoued of 2 or 3 daiez, vnto þe akyng be quieted [?c1425 Parislissed or stille].
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Aiiii His naturall inclinacion and appetite can neuer be saciat, contented and quieted.
1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Administr. Lordes Supper sig. N.iiiv If there be any of you whiche..cannot quiet his own conscience.
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xviii. 159 Sense is not easily quieted with such Metaphysicall contemplations, that seeme to repugne against her dictamens.
1679 J. Bancroft Trag. Sertorius iv. ii. 35 For I shall never tast of peace or rest Till I, the Cause, have quieted thy grief.
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iv. 425 Relaxing and lubricating the Passages, and quieting the Spasms by Opiats.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xi. 253 This quieted our apprehensions for some time.
1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. iii. 32 It would have quieted her ambition to see him driving a barouche.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xi. 32 The event quieted the fears of one party.
1935 G. Santayana Last Puritan i. ii. 38 He..had even asked for a glass of her medicinal sherry to quiet his nerves.
1992 R. MacNeil Burden of Desire (1993) 455 I had scarcely quieted my rage from an hour before.
b. transitive. To make quiet, quieten (a person, thing, etc.); to soothe, to pacify.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > make quiet or tranquil [verb (transitive)]
still1300
peasec1350
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coyc1374
lullc1386
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acquieta1535
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becalm1613
compose1615
slumber1622
unruffle1629
quieten1759
bestill1760
quietize1791
peace1864
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > make inaudible [verb (transitive)] > silence
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husht1598
silencea1616
whisht1804
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1423 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1909) I. 294 (MED) It is ordeyned and stabled that payement be made anon..that the puple may most be quieted and lest vexed.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 2737 Ȝif he hym founde..I trow þer schuld hym gayn no raunsoun Nor oþer mede his herte to quyete, But only deth.
a1475 ( S. Scrope tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Bodl. 943) (1999) 106 Who-so is pacient doothe wele..and who-so is quietede [a1460 anon. tr. holdes his peas] is saued.
1550 R. Crowley Way to Wealth sig. Aviiv Quiet thy selfe therfore, & striue not againste the streame.
c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) ii. i. 72 Raymund..whipped the rebells, quieted Leynster.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. i. 49 Quiet thy Cudgell, thou dost see I eate. View more context for this quotation
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 520 A very difficult piece of Work..to quiet all the right side of the Rhine.
a1686 J. Gordon Hist. Scots Affairs (1841) I. 24 Helpe..for qwyetting the enraged multitude.
1716 J. Addison Drummer ii. 20 He knows the Secret of laying Ghosts, or of quieting Houses that are haunted.
1786 F. Burney Diary 8 Nov. (1842) III. 217 I did what was possible to quiet her, but to no purpose.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 211 In trying to quiet one set of malecontents, he had created another.
1881 Cent. Mag. Nov. 51/1 Burell, the boatswain, was quieted by a broad-ax.
1928 C. S. Whitehead & C. A. Hoff Ethical Sex Relations (new ed.) i. vi. 212 Don't allow baby to suck a pacifier, empty bottle, or any device to quiet him.
1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor iii. xviii. 728 By dint of these and like sophistical cajolements Mrs. Russecks was..quieted.
2002 Spectator (Nexis) 9 Feb. 40 His country friends have spent millennium eve quieting horses.
c. transitive. To quieten, quell (a disturbance, dissension, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > make quiet or tranquil [verb (transitive)] > specifically a disturbance or persons involved in
quiet1553
1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. vii. sig. U.iii When he had thus encreased his army with the supply of his new power, he went about in euery place to quiet those sturres yt bene raysed vp by the rebellion [L. ad ea, quae defectione turbata erant, conponenda processit].
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clxxiiij The byshop wyl sende thether..to quiet the controuersy.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 106 A certaine Punicall warre: whose victorie wilbe like that of Carthage against Roome, if it be not the sooner quieted.
1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 33 Till the said King Edward had quieted the troubles with his subiects at home.
1674 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 193 Some companys of ye Guard being comanded together to quiet ye Tumult.
1744 E. F. Haywood Fortunate Foundlings xviii. 245 Colonel Poniatosky, who had attended Stanislaus into Poland, now the disturbances of that kingdom were quieted,..obtained leave of Stanislaus to return to the camp.
1788 T. Jefferson Let. 4 Dec. in Papers (1958) XIV. 328 There was all reason to believe that the war in the North-Western parts of Europe would be quieted.
1792 E. Burke Let. to R. Burke in Corr. IV. 4 Measures which may quiet the unhappy divisions of the country.
1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles iv. 143 Quieting with a word the tempest in their bosoms.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt III. xlvi. 229 He came to tell me that the disturbance was quieted, and that the streets were nearly emptied.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 360 The motion..quiets the restless palpitation of the heart.
1929 Travel Jan. 43/2 There was a look of great calm and peace as though he were thinking of that real Epiphany of long ago that quieted the troubled waters.
1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential i. iii. 30 Then agents had to go out and make arrests..to quiet the hullabaloo.
1993 Wired Dec. 134/3 DTS could present an inviting mechanism for quieting unwanted dissent or for defanging an unruly congressional leader bent on exposing some questionable CIA operation.
†2. transitive. To release (oneself or another) from a debt or obligation; to acquit (oneself). Obsolete.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > be exempt from (a liability or obligation) [verb (transitive)] > free from obligation
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1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 203/1 Nor that the seid Abbot nor his successours..in eny wyse of the said somme be quiete or discharged.
1472–3 Rolls of Parl. VI. 50/1 Pleas it your Highnes..that your said Suppliaunt..be discharged, relesed, and quieted of almaner eschapes, fynes, paynes, [etc.].
a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 2861 (MED) Eche of them iij so wele quiete them ther, They slew iij knyghtez euerychone for on.
3. intransitive. Now chiefly North American. To become quiet; to quieten. Frequently with down.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > be silent [verb (intransitive)]
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the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > be quiet or tranquil [verb (intransitive)] > become quiet or tranquil
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a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1848) II. 160 And this wes proclamet at the Croce efter nyne houris at nycht; and sa that truble quyetted.
1791 T. Paine Rights of Man i. 25 The mind can hardly..conceive the possibility of its quieting so soon.
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. ix. 159 I have never seen buffaloes ‘quieting’ down before.
1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys 348 By-and-by she quieted; and from pure exhaustion fell asleep.
1897 A. Beardsley Let. 17 Mar. (1970) 279 There has been no return of haemorrhage. The lung too is quieting down.
1914 G. B. Shaw Misalliance 85 You would then be charged and imprisoned until things quieted down.
1974 Sci. Amer. July 47/2 The effect of the drugs is often dramatic, with the children quieting down, paying attention to their schoolwork and in some cases doing better in school.
2003 New Yorker 3 Mar. 75/1 As I bounced along, the frogs quieted momentarily.
4. transitive. Chiefly Law (U.S. in later use). To settle or establish the fact of ownership of (a title, etc.); to settle or establish (a person, company, etc.) in quiet enjoyment or possession of land or property (chiefly in passive).
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society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > assume control and possession of > establish in quiet
quietc1595
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxxii. 13 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 119 You should vnto the weake extend Your hand, to loose and quiet his estate.
1654 G. Goddard in T. Burton Diary (1828) (modernized text) I. Introd. p. cxc A Bill for quieting the possession of the government.
1668 Ormonde MSS in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 69 Your petitioner..made surrender of his estate unto the Crowne so soone as he was quieted in the possession thereof.
1723 W. Bohun Cursus Cancellariæ (ed. 2) 288 To the end your Oratrix's and Tenants Possession in the said Manors, Lands and Premises may by this Honourable Court be quieted and established.
1785 Times 9 Nov. 3/1 What these circumstances shall be is for the consideration of the Court, who should always make it their object to quiet a corporation.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 88 The tenant filed a bill in Chancery for an injunction to stay proceedings at law, and to be quieted in the possession of the house.
1884 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 27 47 The Plaintiffs are entitled..to be quieted in the possession they have had for so many years.
1912 J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk. (at cited word) A payment may be made to quiet a claim or an appeal may be made to the Legislature to quiet (or settle) the title to land the possession of which has been long in dispute.
1984 New Yorker 24 Dec. 33/1 Years ago, the two cousins had quieted the title, and essentially Jenny felt safe.
2004 Herald-Dispatch (Huntington, W. Va.) (Nexis) 7 June a12 Plaintiff seeks that the title to said real estate be quieted and established and confirmed as an absolute title in fee simple to the plaintiff.
5. transitive. Electronics. To suppress the noise output of (a radio receiver) when the signal strength falls below a predetermined level; to reduce the noise content of (a signal); = squelch v. 3.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > processes > [verb (transitive)] > reduce gain of receiver
quiet1950
squelch1950
1950 K. Henney Radio Engin. Handbk. (ed. 4) xvii. 821 The purpose of these circuits is to squelch or quiet the receiver when sufficient signal for satisfactory reception is not present.
2001 C. W. Sayre Compl. Wireless Design x. 456 The noise..will be placed at the squelch gate input to bias it on. This short-circuits the output of the detector to ground, preventing the audio amp from receiving this noise, and thus quieting the audio output.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

quietint.

Brit. /ˈkwʌɪət/, U.S. /ˈkwaɪət/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: quiet n.; quiet adj.
Etymology: Partly < quiet n., and partly < quiet adj.
As a command or request: ‘be quiet’; ‘don't make any noise’; ‘stop talking’.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > be silent [interjection]
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > taciturnity [interjection] > silence or do not speak
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quiet1814
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ciunas1987
1814 M. Brunton Discipline III. xxiv. 84 ‘Hush! quiet!’ said the man.
1888 Sunday School Times (Philadelphia) 2 June 341/2 A..teacher..spent one-third of her precious hour in uselessly repeating: ‘Sh-sh-sh! quiet now, children.’
1923 Sat. Evening Post 24 Feb. 105/1 [There was] just a simple sign in gray letters, ‘Quiet, please. This is a Room for Thought.’
2010 M. Harrison Thirteen Curses 17 ‘Don't!’ Rowan yelled. ‘Quiet!’ her father hissed. ‘You'll wake James!’
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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