quietus : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: quietus	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
quietus n 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" Synonym(s): rest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep, quietus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quietus \Quie"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.