Thesaurus: quietus
Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.
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Definitions
- a. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.
- n. euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
- 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.
- 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.
- n euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)