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单词 quietus
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quietusn.

Brit. /kwʌɪˈiːtəs/, /kwʌɪˈeɪtəs/, /kwɪˈeɪtəs/, U.S. /ˈkwaɪədəs/
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: quietus est n.; Latin quiētus.
Etymology: Partly shortened < quietus est n., and partly (in sense 4) directly < classical Latin quiētus quiet adj.
1. An acquittance or discharge granted on payment of a debt; a receipt. Also in extended use. Now historical. Cf. quietus est n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > receipt
acquittance1394
quittancea1400
quietus est1427
bill of receipt1434
bill of payment1465
quietus1540
tally1580
receipt1583
counter-bill1598
voucher1696
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII (Pardon) Such issues fines or amerciaments..and haue his or their Quietus for the same.
1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy iii. ii. sig. G2 You had the tricke, in Audit time to be sicke, Till I had sign'd your Quietus.
1637 J. Shirley Gamester v. l. 102 A brace of thousands Will, shee has to her Portion, I hop'd to put her off with halfe the summe; That's truth some yonger brother wod ha thank'd mee, And given my quietus tush.
1688 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 571 I gave in my Account about the Sick & Wounded, in order to my quietus.
1707 Glossographia Anglicana Nova Quietus, an Acquitance given Accomptants in the Exchequer.
1759 S. Fielding Hist. Countess of Dellwyn II. iv. vii. 208 When Lady Dellwyn was..near sunk, with the most melancholy Reflexions, she had Recourse..to the Opinions she thought the World must now necessarily express concerning her; she could fancy them signing her Quietus in the Words Calista supposes her Father to use.
1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 52 A final acquittance, (or a quietus, as they term it) is scarcely ever to be obtained [from the exchequer].
1887 48th Deputy Keeper's Rep. 628 The several Books..being preserved, and..the satisfaction or quietus being therein entered.
1943 Michigan Law Rev. 42 444 There were fees for issuing a quietus or acquittance to the executor or administrator upon completion of the administration.
2.
a. A release or respite from life; an ending of life, death; something that causes death.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > [noun]
hensithOE
qualmOE
bale-sithea1000
endingc1000
fallOE
forthsitheOE
soulingOE
life's endOE
deathOE
hethensithc1200
last end?c1225
forthfarec1275
dying1297
finec1300
partingc1300
endc1305
deceasec1330
departc1330
starving1340
passingc1350
latter enda1382
obita1382
perishingc1384
carrion1387
departing1388
finishmentc1400
trespassement14..
passing forthc1410
sesse1417
cess1419
fininga1425
resolutiona1425
departisona1450
passagea1450
departmentc1450
consummation?a1475
dormition1483
debt to (also of) naturea1513
dissolutionc1522
expirationa1530
funeral?a1534
change1543
departure1558
last change1574
transmigration1576
dissolving1577
shaking of the sheets?1577
departance1579
deceasure1580
mortality1582
deceasing1591
waftage1592
launching1599
quietus1603
doom1609
expire1612
expiring1612
period1613
defunctiona1616
Lethea1616
fail1623
dismissiona1631
set1635
passa1645
disanimation1646
suffering1651
abition1656
Passovera1662
latter (last) end1670
finis1682
exitus1706
perch1722
demission1735
demise1753
translation1760
transit1764
dropping1768
expiry1790
departal1823
finish1826
homegoing1866
the last (also final, great) round-up1879
snuffing1922
fade-out1924
thirty1929
appointment in Samarra1934
dirt nap1981
big chill1987
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 77 When that he may his full Quietus make, With a bare bodkin.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Little French Lawyer iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) 66 If he fight, he falls, there's his quietus.
1709 Brit. Apollo 2 The Quackster..with Death signs our Quietus.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 374 Some obtain their quietus without any signs of pain at all.
1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals v. iii If an unlucky bullet should carry a quietus with it.
1810 P. Stockdale Amyntas iii. ii, in Poet. Wks. II. 105 I'll pass At once to that desirable quietus From human misery, which thou, trifling mocker, Refusest me.
a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 65 Sought his quietus in a duel.
1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) v. 65 This shot, far from producing a quietus, gave rise to a series of convulsive struggles.
1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse ix. 121 We walked along it..giving the quietus to half-drowned snakes and iguanas.
1993 Times 2 Aug. It is the most notorious location for making your quietus.
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.
3. A discharge or release from office or duty; a sum of money awarded to a person on termination of office. Also in extended use.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [noun]
off-puttinga1387
supplantationa1393
deposal1397
deposition1399
amotion1441
privation1444
subversion1470
deposing1480
dispointment1483
quietus est1530
cassing1550
deprivation1551
remove1553
destitution1554
depose1559
abdication1574
dismissionc1600
renvoy1600
displacement1611
deprivement1630
quietus1635
removal1645
deposure1648
displacing1655
cashierment1656
discarding1660
amoval1675
depriving1705
superannuation1722
separation1779
ouster1782
disestablishment1806
dismissal1849
epuration1883
deprival1886
purge1893
society > occupation and work > lack of work > [noun] > dismissal or discharge
discharginga1398
discharge1523
quietus est1530
conduction1538
cassing1550
remove1553
destitution1554
mittimus1596
dismissionc1600
quietus1635
removal1645
cashierment1656
separation1779
dismissing1799
dismissala1806
to give (a person) the sack1825
bullet1841
congee1847
decapitation1869
G.B.1880
the shove1899
spear1912
bob-tail1915
severance1941
sacking1958
termination1974
1635 J. Shirley Traitor iv. i. sig. H2v I love peace, and a little honesty; I know your honour will find an abler man for it, and it is fit I should pay for my quietus.
c1670 A. Wood Life 16 Jan. 1651 (1891) I. 166 Had A. W. continued postmaster a little longer, he had, without doubt, received his quietus.
1687 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 401 Sir Francis Withens, a judge of the Kings bench, hath his quietus.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo v, in Wks. (1721) III. 155 The Guardian to relieve, Who his Quietus shall in Heav'n receive.
1788 H. Walpole Lett. (1902) 104 A Veteran Author ought to take out his quietus as much as the Superannuated of any other Profession.
1805 Times 11 Apr. 1/2 They granted, as a quietus to the Treasurer of the Navy, 24,000l.
1879 T. H. Sayre Strategist (MS) i. 11 Bridget. Mr. Pepper ma'am. Mrs. H. That nuisance again! Show him up. (Exit Bridget) Mrs. H. I'll give him his quietus this time.
1911 Bluejacket May 311 In this way, when one of them does manage to evade the eagle eye of the recruiting officer, he usually runs foul of the authorities at the Training Station, who are quick to administer his quietus.
1953 Middlesboro (Kentucky) Daily News 4 Apr. 2/5 In view of the excellence of work done by the Clerk and Collector, he is entitled to a quietus for his work done and performed from October 1, 1948 to January 1, 1953.
1981 Hist. Jrnl. 24 935 [Sir John Gates] received discharge or quietus for his management, during 1542–7, of the personal belongings of the king.
4.
a. A thing that has a quietening or soothing effect; a salve, a sedative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > [noun] > silence > that which silences
quietus1709
1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs xxiii. 265 The Dinner being now ended, and the Doctor having given a Quietus to the Teeth of the Society.
1747 Answer to Dangerous Pamphlet (Dublin ed.) 15 It has been remark'd, as one great difference between the Protestant and Popish religions, that the former is the commodious for living in; and that the latter gives the best Quietus, at our exit.
1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance xxxii This disaster..had the effect of a quietus upon Miss P. for some time.
1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxxiii. 304 The nurse ran to give its accustomed quietus to the little screaming infant.
1864 L. M. Alcott Moods xix. 263 Prue preferred to rock violently, and boggle down a seam as the best quietus for her fluttered nerves.
1985 A. Kenny Path from Rome (1986) iv. 79 I had already been ordained a priest, and I had found a temporary philosophical quietus for the problems which had troubled me.
b. A quiet period; a time of inactivity.
ΚΠ
1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 176 If pression, and the strong attractive power of the moon, and the weaker influence of the sun, forces the immense ocean twice a day from its natural quietus, and rolls it in tides, why has the Caspian Sea no Tide?
1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall I. 287 At present,..it was probable the enemy had a temporary quietus.
1878 E. Fawcett Fantasy & Passion ii. 114 I..watch how tranquilly the dim lands gleam, Touched by the grave quietus of the night!
1957 Times 23 Nov. 7/5 The terms of refererence..confine the tribunal to establishing a temporary quietus between two narrow sectional interests.
1973 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 21 July 4/4 A quietus has developed in his pet project.
2005 National Rev. (Nexis) 20 June All stillness is a deception, the quietus of a volcano that could erupt at any time.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

quietusv.

Brit. /kwʌɪˈiːtəs/, /kwʌɪˈeɪtəs/, /kwɪˈeɪtəs/, U.S. /ˈkwaɪədəs/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quietus n.
Etymology: < quietus n.
rare.
transitive. †To release, discharge (obsolete); to put an end to, kill. Cf. quietus n.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)]
outOE
deposec1300
remuec1325
to put out1344
to set downc1369
deprivec1374
outputa1382
removea1382
to throw outa1382
to put downc1384
privea1387
to set adowna1387
to put out of ——?a1400
amovec1425
disappoint1434
unmakec1475
dismiss1477
dispoint1483
voidc1503
to set or put beside (or besides) the cushion1546
relieve1549
cass1550
displace1553
unauthorize1554
to wring out1560
seclude1572
eject1576
dispost1577
decass1579
overboard1585
cast1587
sequester1587
to put to grass1589
cashier1592
discompose1599
abdicate1610
unseat1611
dismount1612
disoffice1627
to take off1642
unchair1645
destitute1653
lift1659
resign1674
quietus1688
superannuate1692
derange1796
shelve1812
shelf1819
Stellenbosch1900
defenestrate1917
axe1922
retire1961
society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss or discharge
to put awaya1387
discharge1428
dismiss1477
to put out of wages1542
discard1589
to turn away1602
to put off1608
disemploy1619
to pay off1648
to pay off1651
to turn out1667
to turn off1676
quietus1688
strip1756
trundle1794
unshop1839
shopc1840
to lay off1841
sack1841
drop1845
to give (a person) the shoot1846
bag1848
swap1862
fire1879
to knock off1881
bounce1884
to give (a person) the pushc1886
to give (a person) the boot or the order of the boot1888
bump1899
spear1911
to strike (a medical practitioner, etc.) off the register1911
terminate1920
tramp1941
shitcan1961
pink slip1966
dehire1970
resize1975
to give a person his jotters1990
1688 in Ellis Corr. II. 22 The other Powell and Holloway, who are quietus'd.
1918 Modesto (Calif.) Evening News 21 Feb. 2/5 Thirty-five German war planes have been destroyed in the past three days and 19 driven earthward, uncontrolled—a total of fifty-four ‘quietused’ by the Britishers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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