quietusn.

Brit.

/kwʌɪˈiːtəs/,

/kwʌɪˈeɪtəs/,

/kwɪˈeɪtəs/, U.S.

/ˈkwaɪədəs/

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: quietus est n.; Latin quiētus.

Etymology: Partly shortened < quietus est n., and partly (in sense 4) directly < classical Latin quiētus quiet adj.

1. An acquittance or discharge granted on payment of a debt; a receipt. Also in extended use. Now historical. Cf. quietus est n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > receipt

acquittance1394

quittancea1400

quietus est1427

bill of receipt1434

bill of payment1465

quietus1540

tally1580

receipt1583

counter-bill1598

voucher1696

1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII (Pardon) Such issues fines or amerciaments..and haue his or their Quietus for the same.

1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy iii. ii. sig. G2 You had the tricke, in Audit time to be sicke, Till I had sign'd your Quietus.

1637 J. Shirley Gamester v. l. 102 A brace of thousands Will, shee has to her Portion, I hop'd to put her off with halfe the summe; That's truth some yonger brother wod ha thank'd mee, And given my quietus tush.

1688 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 571 I gave in my Account about the Sick & Wounded, in order to my quietus.

1707 Glossographia Anglicana Nova Quietus, an Acquitance given Accomptants in the Exchequer.

1759 S. Fielding Hist. Countess of Dellwyn II. iv. vii. 208 When Lady Dellwyn was..near sunk, with the most melancholy Reflexions, she had Recourse..to the Opinions she thought the World must now necessarily express concerning her; she could fancy them signing her Quietus in the Words Calista supposes her Father to use.

1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 52 A final acquittance, (or a quietus, as they term it) is scarcely ever to be obtained [from the exchequer].

1887 48th Deputy Keeper's Rep. 628 The several Books..being preserved, and..the satisfaction or quietus being therein entered.

1943 Michigan Law Rev. 42 444 There were fees for issuing a quietus or acquittance to the executor or administrator upon completion of the administration.

a. A release or respite from life; an ending of life, death; something that causes death.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [noun]

hensithOE

qualmOE

bale-sithea1000

endingc1000

fallOE

forthsitheOE

soulingOE

life's endOE

deathOE

hethensithc1200

last end?c1225

forthfarec1275

dying1297

finec1300

partingc1300

endc1305

deceasec1330

departc1330

starving1340

passingc1350

latter enda1382

obita1382

perishingc1384

carrion1387

departing1388

finishmentc1400

trespassement14..

passing forthc1410

sesse1417

cess1419

fininga1425

resolutiona1425

departisona1450

passagea1450

departmentc1450

consummation?a1475

dormition1483

debt to (also of) naturea1513

dissolutionc1522

expirationa1530

funeral?a1534

change1543

departure1558

last change1574

transmigration1576

dissolving1577

shaking of the sheets?1577

departance1579

deceasure1580

mortality1582

deceasing1591

waftage1592

launching1599

quietus1603

doom1609

expire1612

expiring1612

period1613

defunctiona1616

Lethea1616

fail1623

dismissiona1631

set1635

passa1645

disanimation1646

suffering1651

abition1656

Passovera1662

latter (last) end1670

finis1682

exitus1706

perch1722

demission1735

demise1753

translation1760

transit1764

dropping1768

expiry1790

departal1823

finish1826

homegoing1866

the last (also final, great) round-up1879

snuffing1922

fade-out1924

thirty1929

appointment in Samarra1934

dirt nap1981

big chill1987

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 77 When that he may his full Quietus make, With a bare bodkin.

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Little French Lawyer iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) 66 If he fight, he falls, there's his quietus.

1709 Brit. Apollo 2 The Quackster..with Death signs our Quietus.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 374 Some obtain their quietus without any signs of pain at all.

1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals v. iii If an unlucky bullet should carry a quietus with it.

1810 P. Stockdale Amyntas iii. ii, in Poet. Wks. II. 105 I'll pass At once to that desirable quietus From human misery, which thou, trifling mocker, Refusest me.

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 65 Sought his quietus in a duel.

1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) v. 65 This shot, far from producing a quietus, gave rise to a series of convulsive struggles.

1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse ix. 121 We walked along it..giving the quietus to half-drowned snakes and iguanas.

1993 Times 2 Aug. It is the most notorious location for making your quietus.

b. An ending or extinction, esp. of something regarded as undesirable, controversial, troublesome, etc.; something that causes the end (of a theory, concept, matter, etc.). Chiefly in give (also put) the quietus to.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > ceasing to exist

deathOE

out-burninga1382

fading1578

desition1612

desistency1615

expiration1649

quietus1744

nothingness1813

defunctness1883

unbecoming1883

dead-and-goneness1891

1744 D. Stephenson Med. made to Agree iii. 33 If the Lentor be so great, universal, and deeply fix'd,..then all Things will go on from worse to worse, until Death gives a final Quietus thereto.

c1796 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) VI. 1007 I should like to publish the best pieces together, & those of secondary Splendor at the end of the Volume; and this, I think, the best Quietus of the whole Affair.

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. x. 251 We have now, I think, given a quietus to the parlour.

1885 E. Clodd Myths & Dreams i. iv. 73 This law gave the quietus to theories of common origin.

1889 J. K. Bangs Mephistopheles ii. i. 47 I greatly fear that Vally's just the man To put a small quietus on our plan.

1925 H. C. Booth tr. F. Auerbach Mod. Magnetics (U.K. ed.) xi. 288 It was Balfour Stewart, afterwards supplemented by Schuster, who gave the quietus to this theory.

1956 Internat. Affairs 32 379 The wage reform of 1931 was an essential preliminary, giving as it did the final quietus to earlier ideas of equalitarianism which had greatly impeded the application of incentives.

1992 A. W. Eckert Sorrow in our Heart ix. 563 He..determined..to write words to be circulated among the Indians that would, once and for all, put the quietus to The Prophet's growing influence.

3. A discharge or release from office or duty; a sum of money awarded to a person on termination of office. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [noun]

off-puttinga1387

supplantationa1393

deposal1397

deposition1399

amotion1441

privation1444

subversion1470

deposing1480

dispointment1483

quietus est1530

cassing1550

deprivation1551

remove1553

destitution1554

depose1559

abdication1574

dismissionc1600

renvoy1600

displacement1611

deprivement1630

quietus1635

removal1645

deposure1648

displacing1655

cashierment1656

discarding1660

amoval1675

depriving1705

superannuation1722

separation1779

ouster1782

disestablishment1806

dismissal1849

epuration1883

deprival1886

purge1893

society > occupation and work > lack of work > [noun] > dismissal or discharge

discharginga1398

discharge1523

quietus est1530

conduction1538

cassing1550

remove1553

destitution1554

mittimus1596

dismissionc1600

quietus1635

removal1645

cashierment1656

separation1779

dismissing1799

dismissala1806

to give (a person) the sack1825

bullet1841

congee1847

decapitation1869

G.B.1880

the shove1899

spear1912

bob-tail1915

severance1941

sacking1958

termination1974

1635 J. Shirley Traitor iv. i. sig. H2^v I love peace, and a little honesty; I know your honour will find an abler man for it, and it is fit I should pay for my quietus.

c1670 A. Wood Life 16 Jan. 1651 (1891) I. 166 Had A. W. continued postmaster a little longer, he had, without doubt, received his quietus.

1687 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 401 Sir Francis Withens, a judge of the Kings bench, hath his quietus.

a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo v, in Wks. (1721) III. 155 The Guardian to relieve, Who his Quietus shall in Heav'n receive.

1788 H. Walpole Lett. (1902) 104 A Veteran Author ought to take out his quietus as much as the Superannuated of any other Profession.

1805 Times 11 Apr. 1/2 They granted, as a quietus to the Treasurer of the Navy, 24,000l.

1879 T. H. Sayre Strategist (MS) i. 11 Bridget. Mr. Pepper ma'am. Mrs. H. That nuisance again! Show him up. (Exit Bridget) Mrs. H. I'll give him his quietus this time.

1911 Bluejacket May 311 In this way, when one of them does manage to evade the eagle eye of the recruiting officer, he usually runs foul of the authorities at the Training Station, who are quick to administer his quietus.

1953 Middlesboro (Kentucky) Daily News 4 Apr. 2/5 In view of the excellence of work done by the Clerk and Collector, he is entitled to a quietus for his work done and performed from October 1, 1948 to January 1, 1953.

1981 Hist. Jrnl. 24 935 [Sir John Gates] received discharge or quietus for his management, during 1542–7, of the personal belongings of the king.

a. A thing that has a quietening or soothing effect; a salve, a sedative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > [noun] > silence > that which silences

quietus1709

1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs xxiii. 265 The Dinner being now ended, and the Doctor having given a Quietus to the Teeth of the Society.

1747 Answer to Dangerous Pamphlet (Dublin ed.) 15 It has been remark'd, as one great difference between the Protestant and Popish religions, that the former is the commodious for living in; and that the latter gives the best Quietus, at our exit.

1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance xxxii This disaster..had the effect of a quietus upon Miss P. for some time.

1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxxiii. 304 The nurse ran to give its accustomed quietus to the little screaming infant.

1864 L. M. Alcott Moods xix. 263 Prue preferred to rock violently, and boggle down a seam as the best quietus for her fluttered nerves.

1985 A. Kenny Path from Rome (1986) iv. 79 I had already been ordained a priest, and I had found a temporary philosophical quietus for the problems which had troubled me.

b. A quiet period; a time of inactivity.

ΚΠ

1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 176 If pression, and the strong attractive power of the moon, and the weaker influence of the sun, forces the immense ocean twice a day from its natural quietus, and rolls it in tides, why has the Caspian Sea no Tide?

1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall I. 287 At present,..it was probable the enemy had a temporary quietus.

1878 E. Fawcett Fantasy & Passion ii. 114 I..watch how tranquilly the dim lands gleam, Touched by the grave quietus of the night!

1957 Times 23 Nov. 7/5 The terms of refererence..confine the tribunal to establishing a temporary quietus between two narrow sectional interests.

1973 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 21 July 4/4 A quietus has developed in his pet project.

2005 National Rev. (Nexis) 20 June All stillness is a deception, the quietus of a volcano that could erupt at any time.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

quietusv.

Brit.

/kwʌɪˈiːtəs/,

/kwʌɪˈeɪtəs/,

/kwɪˈeɪtəs/, U.S.

/ˈkwaɪədəs/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quietus n.

Etymology: < quietus n.

rare.

transitive. †To release, discharge (obsolete); to put an end to, kill. Cf. quietus n.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)]

outOE

deposec1300

remuec1325

to put out1344

to set downc1369

deprivec1374

outputa1382

removea1382

to throw outa1382

to put downc1384

privea1387

to set adowna1387

to put out of ——?a1400

amovec1425

disappoint1434

unmakec1475

dismiss1477

dispoint1483

voidc1503

to set or put beside (or besides) the cushion1546

relieve1549

cass1550

displace1553

unauthorize1554

to wring out1560

seclude1572

eject1576

dispost1577

decass1579

overboard1585

cast1587

sequester1587

to put to grass1589

cashier1592

discompose1599

abdicate1610

unseat1611

dismount1612

disoffice1627

to take off1642

unchair1645

destitute1653

lift1659

resign1674

quietus1688

superannuate1692

derange1796

shelve1812

shelf1819

Stellenbosch1900

defenestrate1917

axe1922

retire1961

society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss or discharge

to put awaya1387

discharge1428

dismiss1477

to put out of wages1542

discard1589

to turn away1602

to put off1608

disemploy1619

to pay off1648

to pay off1651

to turn out1667

to turn off1676

quietus1688

strip1756

trundle1794

unshop1839

shopc1840

to lay off1841

sack1841

drop1845

to give (a person) the shoot1846

bag1848

swap1862

fire1879

to knock off1881

bounce1884

to give (a person) the pushc1886

to give (a person) the boot or the order of the boot1888

bump1899

spear1911

to strike (a medical practitioner, etc.) off the register1911

terminate1920

tramp1941

shitcan1961

pink slip1966

dehire1970

resize1975

to give a person his jotters1990

1688 in Ellis Corr. II. 22 The other Powell and Holloway, who are quietus'd.

1918 Modesto (Calif.) Evening News 21 Feb. 2/5 Thirty-five German war planes have been destroyed in the past three days and 19 driven earthward, uncontrolled—a total of fifty-four ‘quietused’ by the Britishers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quietus
释义	quietusn. Brit. /kwʌɪˈiːtəs/, /kwʌɪˈeɪtəs/, /kwɪˈeɪtəs/, U.S. /ˈkwaɪədəs/ Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: quietus est n.; Latin quiētus. Etymology: Partly shortened < quietus est n., and partly (in sense 4) directly < classical Latin quiētus quiet adj. 1. An acquittance or discharge granted on payment of a debt; a receipt. Also in extended use. Now historical. Cf. quietus est n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > receipt acquittance1394 quittancea1400 quietus est1427 bill of receipt1434 bill of payment1465 quietus1540 tally1580 receipt1583 counter-bill1598 voucher1696 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII (Pardon) Such issues fines or amerciaments..and haue his or their Quietus for the same. 1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy iii. ii. sig. G2 You had the tricke, in Audit time to be sicke, Till I had sign'd your Quietus. 1637 J. Shirley Gamester v. l. 102 A brace of thousands Will, shee has to her Portion, I hop'd to put her off with halfe the summe; That's truth some yonger brother wod ha thank'd mee, And given my quietus tush. 1688 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 571 I gave in my Account about the Sick & Wounded, in order to my quietus. 1707 Glossographia Anglicana Nova Quietus, an Acquitance given Accomptants in the Exchequer. 1759 S. Fielding Hist. Countess of Dellwyn II. iv. vii. 208 When Lady Dellwyn was..near sunk, with the most melancholy Reflexions, she had Recourse..to the Opinions she thought the World must now necessarily express concerning her; she could fancy them signing her Quietus in the Words Calista supposes her Father to use. 1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 52 A final acquittance, (or a quietus, as they term it) is scarcely ever to be obtained [from the exchequer]. 1887 48th Deputy Keeper's Rep. 628 The several Books..being preserved, and..the satisfaction or quietus being therein entered. 1943 Michigan Law Rev. 42 444 There were fees for issuing a quietus or acquittance to the executor or administrator upon completion of the administration. 2. a. A release or respite from life; an ending of life, death; something that causes death. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] hensithOE qualmOE bale-sithea1000 endingc1000 fallOE forthsitheOE soulingOE life's endOE deathOE hethensithc1200 last end?c1225 forthfarec1275 dying1297 finec1300 partingc1300 endc1305 deceasec1330 departc1330 starving1340 passingc1350 latter enda1382 obita1382 perishingc1384 carrion1387 departing1388 finishmentc1400 trespassement14.. passing forthc1410 sesse1417 cess1419 fininga1425 resolutiona1425 departisona1450 passagea1450 departmentc1450 consummation?a1475 dormition1483 debt to (also of) naturea1513 dissolutionc1522 expirationa1530 funeral?a1534 change1543 departure1558 last change1574 transmigration1576 dissolving1577 shaking of the sheets?1577 departance1579 deceasure1580 mortality1582 deceasing1591 waftage1592 launching1599 quietus1603 doom1609 expire1612 expiring1612 period1613 defunctiona1616 Lethea1616 fail1623 dismissiona1631 set1635 passa1645 disanimation1646 suffering1651 abition1656 Passovera1662 latter (last) end1670 finis1682 exitus1706 perch1722 demission1735 demise1753 translation1760 transit1764 dropping1768 expiry1790 departal1823 finish1826 homegoing1866 the last (also final, great) round-up1879 snuffing1922 fade-out1924 thirty1929 appointment in Samarra1934 dirt nap1981 big chill1987 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 77 When that he may his full Quietus make, With a bare bodkin. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Little French Lawyer iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) 66 If he fight, he falls, there's his quietus. 1709 Brit. Apollo 2 The Quackster..with Death signs our Quietus. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 374 Some obtain their quietus without any signs of pain at all. 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals v. iii If an unlucky bullet should carry a quietus with it. 1810 P. Stockdale Amyntas iii. ii, in Poet. Wks. II. 105 I'll pass At once to that desirable quietus From human misery, which thou, trifling mocker, Refusest me. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 65 Sought his quietus in a duel. 1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) v. 65 This shot, far from producing a quietus, gave rise to a series of convulsive struggles. 1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse ix. 121 We walked along it..giving the quietus to half-drowned snakes and iguanas. 1993 Times 2 Aug. It is the most notorious location for making your quietus. b. An ending or extinction, esp. of something regarded as undesirable, controversial, troublesome, etc.; something that causes the end (of a theory, concept, matter, etc.). Chiefly in give (also put) the quietus to. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > ceasing to exist deathOE out-burninga1382 fading1578 desition1612 desistency1615 expiration1649 quietus1744 nothingness1813 defunctness1883 unbecoming1883 dead-and-goneness1891 1744 D. Stephenson Med. made to Agree iii. 33 If the Lentor be so great, universal, and deeply fix'd,..then all Things will go on from worse to worse, until Death gives a final Quietus thereto. c1796 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) VI. 1007 I should like to publish the best pieces together, & those of secondary Splendor at the end of the Volume; and this, I think, the best Quietus of the whole Affair. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. x. 251 We have now, I think, given a quietus to the parlour. 1885 E. Clodd Myths & Dreams i. iv. 73 This law gave the quietus to theories of common origin. 1889 J. K. Bangs Mephistopheles ii. i. 47 I greatly fear that Vally's just the man To put a small quietus on our plan. 1925 H. C. Booth tr. F. Auerbach Mod. Magnetics (U.K. ed.) xi. 288 It was Balfour Stewart, afterwards supplemented by Schuster, who gave the quietus to this theory. 1956 Internat. Affairs 32 379 The wage reform of 1931 was an essential preliminary, giving as it did the final quietus to earlier ideas of equalitarianism which had greatly impeded the application of incentives. 1992 A. W. Eckert Sorrow in our Heart ix. 563 He..determined..to write words to be circulated among the Indians that would, once and for all, put the quietus to The Prophet's growing influence. 3. A discharge or release from office or duty; a sum of money awarded to a person on termination of office. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [noun] off-puttinga1387 supplantationa1393 deposal1397 deposition1399 amotion1441 privation1444 subversion1470 deposing1480 dispointment1483 quietus est1530 cassing1550 deprivation1551 remove1553 destitution1554 depose1559 abdication1574 dismissionc1600 renvoy1600 displacement1611 deprivement1630 quietus1635 removal1645 deposure1648 displacing1655 cashierment1656 discarding1660 amoval1675 depriving1705 superannuation1722 separation1779 ouster1782 disestablishment1806 dismissal1849 epuration1883 deprival1886 purge1893 society > occupation and work > lack of work > [noun] > dismissal or discharge discharginga1398 discharge1523 quietus est1530 conduction1538 cassing1550 remove1553 destitution1554 mittimus1596 dismissionc1600 quietus1635 removal1645 cashierment1656 separation1779 dismissing1799 dismissala1806 to give (a person) the sack1825 bullet1841 congee1847 decapitation1869 G.B.1880 the shove1899 spear1912 bob-tail1915 severance1941 sacking1958 termination1974 1635 J. Shirley Traitor iv. i. sig. H2^v I love peace, and a little honesty; I know your honour will find an abler man for it, and it is fit I should pay for my quietus. c1670 A. Wood Life 16 Jan. 1651 (1891) I. 166 Had A. W. continued postmaster a little longer, he had, without doubt, received his quietus. 1687 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 401 Sir Francis Withens, a judge of the Kings bench, hath his quietus. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo v, in Wks. (1721) III. 155 The Guardian to relieve, Who his Quietus shall in Heav'n receive. 1788 H. Walpole Lett. (1902) 104 A Veteran Author ought to take out his quietus as much as the Superannuated of any other Profession. 1805 Times 11 Apr. 1/2 They granted, as a quietus to the Treasurer of the Navy, 24,000l. 1879 T. H. Sayre Strategist (MS) i. 11 Bridget. Mr. Pepper ma'am. Mrs. H. That nuisance again! Show him up. (Exit Bridget) Mrs. H. I'll give him his quietus this time. 1911 Bluejacket May 311 In this way, when one of them does manage to evade the eagle eye of the recruiting officer, he usually runs foul of the authorities at the Training Station, who are quick to administer his quietus. 1953 Middlesboro (Kentucky) Daily News 4 Apr. 2/5 In view of the excellence of work done by the Clerk and Collector, he is entitled to a quietus for his work done and performed from October 1, 1948 to January 1, 1953. 1981 Hist. Jrnl. 24 935 [Sir John Gates] received discharge or quietus for his management, during 1542–7, of the personal belongings of the king. 4. a. A thing that has a quietening or soothing effect; a salve, a sedative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > [noun] > silence > that which silences quietus1709 1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs xxiii. 265 The Dinner being now ended, and the Doctor having given a Quietus to the Teeth of the Society. 1747 Answer to Dangerous Pamphlet (Dublin ed.) 15 It has been remark'd, as one great difference between the Protestant and Popish religions, that the former is the commodious for living in; and that the latter gives the best Quietus, at our exit. 1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance xxxii This disaster..had the effect of a quietus upon Miss P. for some time. 1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxxiii. 304 The nurse ran to give its accustomed quietus to the little screaming infant. 1864 L. M. Alcott Moods xix. 263 Prue preferred to rock violently, and boggle down a seam as the best quietus for her fluttered nerves. 1985 A. Kenny Path from Rome (1986) iv. 79 I had already been ordained a priest, and I had found a temporary philosophical quietus for the problems which had troubled me. b. A quiet period; a time of inactivity. ΚΠ 1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 176 If pression, and the strong attractive power of the moon, and the weaker influence of the sun, forces the immense ocean twice a day from its natural quietus, and rolls it in tides, why has the Caspian Sea no Tide? 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall I. 287 At present,..it was probable the enemy had a temporary quietus. 1878 E. Fawcett Fantasy & Passion ii. 114 I..watch how tranquilly the dim lands gleam, Touched by the grave quietus of the night! 1957 Times 23 Nov. 7/5 The terms of refererence..confine the tribunal to establishing a temporary quietus between two narrow sectional interests. 1973 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 21 July 4/4 A quietus has developed in his pet project. 2005 National Rev. (Nexis) 20 June All stillness is a deception, the quietus of a volcano that could erupt at any time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quietusv. Brit. /kwʌɪˈiːtəs/, /kwʌɪˈeɪtəs/, /kwɪˈeɪtəs/, U.S. /ˈkwaɪədəs/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quietus n. Etymology: < quietus n. rare. transitive. †To release, discharge (obsolete); to put an end to, kill. Cf. quietus n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)] outOE deposec1300 remuec1325 to put out1344 to set downc1369 deprivec1374 outputa1382 removea1382 to throw outa1382 to put downc1384 privea1387 to set adowna1387 to put out of ——?a1400 amovec1425 disappoint1434 unmakec1475 dismiss1477 dispoint1483 voidc1503 to set or put beside (or besides) the cushion1546 relieve1549 cass1550 displace1553 unauthorize1554 to wring out1560 seclude1572 eject1576 dispost1577 decass1579 overboard1585 cast1587 sequester1587 to put to grass1589 cashier1592 discompose1599 abdicate1610 unseat1611 dismount1612 disoffice1627 to take off1642 unchair1645 destitute1653 lift1659 resign1674 quietus1688 superannuate1692 derange1796 shelve1812 shelf1819 Stellenbosch1900 defenestrate1917 axe1922 retire1961 society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss or discharge to put awaya1387 discharge1428 dismiss1477 to put out of wages1542 discard1589 to turn away1602 to put off1608 disemploy1619 to pay off1648 to pay off1651 to turn out1667 to turn off1676 quietus1688 strip1756 trundle1794 unshop1839 shopc1840 to lay off1841 sack1841 drop1845 to give (a person) the shoot1846 bag1848 swap1862 fire1879 to knock off1881 bounce1884 to give (a person) the pushc1886 to give (a person) the boot or the order of the boot1888 bump1899 spear1911 to strike (a medical practitioner, etc.) off the register1911 terminate1920 tramp1941 shitcan1961 pink slip1966 dehire1970 resize1975 to give a person his jotters1990 1688 in Ellis Corr. II. 22 The other Powell and Holloway, who are quietus'd. 1918 Modesto (Calif.) Evening News 21 Feb. 2/5 Thirty-five German war planes have been destroyed in the past three days and 19 driven earthward, uncontrolled—a total of fifty-four ‘quietused’ by the Britishers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1540v.1688
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