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▪ I. disquiet, v.|dɪsˈkwaɪət|
[f. dis- 6 + quiet v.]
trans. To deprive of quietness, peace, or rest, bodily or mental; to trouble, disturb, alarm; to make uneasy or restless.
1530Palsgr. 521/2, I disquyet, I trouble one of his rest, je inquiete..He disquyeteth me horrybly a nyghtes with his revell. 1535Coverdale Ps. xxxviii. 5 Yee euery man..disquieteth himself in vayne. 1555Eden Decades 95 After that the sea hathe byn disquyeted with vehemente tempestes. 1586Warner Alb. Eng. i. v. (1612) 18 Amidst their cheere, the solemne feast the Centaures did disqueat. 1693Mem. Cnt. Teckely iv. 41 That Moldavia, Walaquia, and the Republick of Ragusa..should not be disquieted by the Turks. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) I. 101, I disquieted myself to think that I had no powerful protector. 1844Thirlwall Greece VIII. lxi. 119 The Dardanians..disquieted his northern frontier.
▪ II. disquiet, a. Now rare.|dɪsˈkwaɪət|
[f. dis- 10 + quiet a.]
The reverse of quiet; unquiet, restless, uneasy, disturbed.
1587T. Underdown æthiop. Hist. Heliod. 69 A sea, which..was very disquiet and troblesome. 1588Greene Perimedes, Ditty Wks. (Rtldg.) 292/2 Disquiet thoughts. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. i. 171 Pray you husband be not so disquiet. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. ix. (1632) 243 Egfred being by nature of a disquiet disposition. 1727De Foe Hist. Appar. vii. (1840) 120 Disquiet souls returning hither. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lii, His mind was disquiet.
▪ III. disquiet, n.|dɪsˈkwaɪət|
[Partly n. use of the adj., partly f. disquiet v.]
Absence of bodily or mental quietness; disturbance; uneasiness, anxiety, worry; restlessness, unrest.
1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. ii. (1586) 68 b, To attaine to learning, there is not onelie required a will, but studie, watching, labour, and disquiet, which are irkesome thinges. 1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. i. 268 All disquiet, horror, and perturbation followes her. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. 260 Called by God..unto that rest which never afterward hath disquiet. 1641Termes de la Ley (1708) 76 Making discord and disquiet to rise between his Neighbours. 1703Rowe Fair Penit. ii. ii. 580 This fond Paper would not give me A moment of Disquiet. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. III. 235 The States of the Church and Naples were still in a state of universal disquiet and ferment. 1869Phillips Vesuv. iii. 58 The eleven months of disquiet may be regarded as one almost continual eruption.
†b. with a and pl. A disturbance; a disquieting feeling or circumstance. arch. or Obs.
1574Ld. Burghley in Strype Ann. Ref. I. iv. 81 Anxieties and disquiets of mind. 1659Hammond On Ps. cxliv. 12–14 Paraphr. 694 Without any disturbances or disquiets. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 97 It is so mighty a Disquiet to the Governor, that he can never be at ease till he [etc.]. 1726–7Swift Gulliver i. iv. 55 In the midst of these intestine disquiets. 1755Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 135 My soul has been invaded by a thousand miseries, a thousand toils, and four thousand disquiets. |