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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Quietus

· Qui·e·tus · IPA /kwaɪˈiːtəs/
01 n. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.
  1. 1.
    Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.[Fig.]
    “When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin.” Shak.