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qui·e·tus       [kwahy-ee-tuhs] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -tus·es.
1.a finishing stroke; anything that effectually ends or settles: Having given a quietus to the argument, she left.
2.discharge or release from life.
3.a period of retirement or inactivity.
[Origin: 1530–40; < ML quiétus quit (in quiétus est (he) is quit, a formula of acquittance), L: (he) is quiet, at rest (see quiet1); cf. quit1 (adj.)]
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qui·e·tus       (kwī-ē'təs)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Something that serves to suppress, check, or eliminate.
  2. Release from life; death.
  3. A final discharge, as of a duty or debt.


[Short for Middle English quietus (est), (he is) discharged (of an obligation), from Medieval Latin quiētus (est), from Latin, (he is) at rest; see quiet.]

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quietus

noun
euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep" [syn: rest] 

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Quietus

Qui*e"tus\, n. [LL. quietus quit, discharged, L., at rest, quiet, dead. See Quiet, a., and cf. Quit, a.] Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.

When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. --Shak.

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