quiescev.

1645 W. Lithgow True Relation Siege Newcastle 21 The earle Calendar..gave presently order for quiescing of tumults.

1649 His Majesties Declar. conc. Proclam. Army 6 Hath the Parl. or the army yet got so much love? are they so deep in the hearts of the people, that they can assure themselves the newtrals, or those who have gone farre with them will quiesce?

1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana i. iv The particles of Fire..suffer not the parts of Aer and Water to quiesce, but disperse and impel them variously.

1833 Wild Sports of West I. 27 Did tired nature quiesce for a moment, I was..roused with a tornado of..sounds.

1888 W. D. Howells Annie Kilburn xxx. 330 The village, after a season of acute conjecture, quiesced into..sufferance of the anomaly.

1963 C. Irving Scandal '63 xvii. 191 The Telegraph quiesced a little, sharing the realism that all opportunists require.

1988 Toronto Star (Nexis) 18 Aug. l6 The fireballs flaring brightly and slowly quiescing into a radiance, then disappearing within the smoke.

1991 Warsaw Voice (Nexis) 17 Mar. Scandals compromising Warsaw authorities..have quiesced.

1821 M. Stuart Hebrew Gram. 47 He, (ה) never quiesces, except at the end of a word.

1853 J. R. Wolf Pract. Hebrew Gram. 8 The letters אהוי are said to quiesce in the vowels after which they are placed.

1886 Hebraica 2 157 The vowel-letters..are usually omitted where they quiesce.

1924 W. B. D. Stevenson Gram. Palestinian Jewish Aramaic (1962) 36 Yodh quiesces in the construct and emphatic of the singular.

1972 Harvard Theol. Rev. 65 141 In these, a > ā in an open pretonic syllable, as expected (in Ishmael, the aleph quiesces).

1992 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 51 199 The י of the root would have stood in word-final position where Hebrew י always quiesces.