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qui⋅e⋅tus

  [kwahy-ee-tuhs]
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–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 quiētus quit (in quiētus est (he) is quit, a formula of acquittance), L: (he) is quiet, at rest (see quiet 1 ); cf. quit 1 (adj.)
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qui·e·tus   (kwī-ē'təs)   
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

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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