英语词汇“give the quietus to”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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.

单词	give the quietus to
释义	> as lemmas give (also put) the quietus to 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. extracted from quietusn. < as lemmas
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