quiet 
= Syn. 1-5. Pladd, Serene, etc. (see orfml), peaceful, un- 
ruffled, undisturbed. 4. Meek, mild. 
quiet (kwi'et), . [< ME. quiete, quuete = Sp. 
i/nit'te = It. quiete, < L. quit's (qitiet-), rest; cf. 
quiet, a.] 1. Rest; repose; stillness. 
For now the noonday quiet holds the hill. 
Tennyson, (Knnnr 
That cloistered quiet which characterizes all university 
towns. Lowell, Cambridge Thirty YearB Ago. 
Long be it ere the tide of trade 
Shall break with harsh resounding din 
The quiet of thy banks of shade. 
Whittier, Kenoza Lake. 
2. An undisturbed condition ; tranquillity ; 
peace ; repose. 
And take hede hou Makamede, thorwe a mylde done, 
He hald al Surrye as hym-Belf wolde and Sarasyns in quyet? ; 
Nouht thorw manslauht and mannes strengthe Maka- 
mede hadde the mastrie. 
Piers Plowman (C), xviii. 240. 
Enjoys his garden and his book in quiet. 
Pope, Irait. of Horace, II. i. 199. 
And, like an infant troublesome awake, 
Is left to sleep for peace and quiet's sake. 
Cmcper, Truth, 1. 428. 
3. An undisturbed state of mind ; peace of 
soul; patience; calmness. 
Thy greatest help is quiet, gentle Nell. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., ii. 4. 67. 
A certain quiet on his soul did fall, 
As though he saw the end and waited it. 
William -Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 814. 
At quiet 1 , still ; peaceful. 
And they . . . came unto Laish, unto a people that were 
at quiet and secure. Judges xviii. 27. 
Death did the only Cure apply ; 
She was "' quift, so was I. 
Prior, Turtle and Sparrow. 
In quiet, quietly. 
York. I shall not sleep in quift at the Tower. 
Qlou. Why, what should you fear? 
Shak., Rich. III., iii. 1. 142. 
On the quiet, clandestinely ; so as to avoid observation. 
[Slang.] 
I'd just like to have a bit of chinwag with you on the quiet. 
Punch, Jan. 8, 1881, p. 4. 
Out of quiet 1 , disturbed ; restless. 
Since the youth of the count's was to-day with my lady, 
she is much out of quiet. Shak., T. N., ii. 3. 144. 
= Syn, Repose, Tranquillity, ete. See rest. 
quiet (kwi'et), v. [< LL. qiiietare, quietari, make 
quiet, < L. quietus, quiet: see quiet, a. Cf. 
quit 1 , v.] I. trans. 1. To bring to a state of 
rest; stop. 
Quiet thy cudgel. Shak., Hen. V., v. 1. 54. 
The ideas of moving or quieting corporeal motion. 
Locke. 
2. To make or cause to be quiet; calm; ap- 
pease; pacify; lull; allay; tranquillize: as, to 
quiet the soul when it is agitated; to quiet the 
clamors of a nation ; to quiet the disorders of a 
city. 
After that Gallia was thus quieted, Ctesar (as he was de- 
termined before) went into Italy to hold a parlament. 
Golding, tr. of Ceesar, fol. 175. 
Surely I have behaved unAquieted myself, as a child that 
is weaned of his mother. Ps. cxxxi. 2. 
The growth of our dissention was either prevented or 
soon quieted. Milton, Eikonoklastes, xxvi. 
= Syn. 2. To compose, soothe, sober ; to still, silence, hush. 
II. intrans. To become quiet or still; abate: 
as, the sea quieted. 
While astonishment 
With deep-drawn sighs was quieting. Keats. 
quietaget(kwi'et-aj),w. [< quiet + -age.'] Peace; 
quiet. [Bare.] 
Sweet peace and quiet age 
It doth establish in the troubled mynd. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. ill. 43. 
quieten (kwi'et-u), v. [< quiet, a., + -enl.] I. 
intrans. To become quiet or still. 
II. trans. To make quiet ; calm ; pacify. 
I will stay, . . . partly to quieten the fears of this poor 
faithful fellow. Mrs. Gaskell, Ruth, xxxiv. (Davits.) 
quieter (kwi'et-er), n. [< quiet + -ed.] One 
who or that which quiets. 
quieting-chamber (kwi'et-ing-cham"ber), n. 
In a steam-engine, an exhaust-pipe fitted with 
a number of small branch tubes the sections 
of which, taken together, equal that of the main 
pipe. It is intended to prevent the usual noise 
of blowing off steam. 
quietism (kwi'et-izm), . [= F. quietisme = 
Sp. Pg. It. qwietifimo = G. quietismus, < NL.gwie- 
tismus; as quiet + -ism.] 1 . That form of mys- 
ticism which consists in the entire abnegation 
of all active exercise of the will and a purely 
passive meditation on God and divine things 
as the highest spiritual exercise and the means 
of bringing the soul into immediate union with 
the Godhead. Conspicuous exponents of quiet- 
4912 
i sm were Moli nos and Mme. Guyon, in the seven- 
tccntli century. See MoUnist". 
If the temper and constitution were cold and phlegmatic, 
their religion has sunk into <i//i>'ti.^in ; if bilious or san- 
guine, it has ttamed out into all the frenzy of enthusiasm. 
Warburton, Alliance, I. 
The Monks of the Holy Mountain (Mount Athos], from 
the eleventh century, appeared to have yielded to a kind 
of quietism, and to have held that he who, in silence and 
solitude, turned his thoughts with intense introspection 
on himself, would find his soul enveloped in a mystic and 
ethereal light, the essence of Ood, and be filled with pure 
and perfect happiness. 
J. M. Neale, Eastern Church, i. 870, note. 
2. The state or quality of being quiet; quiet- 
ness. [Rare.] 
He ... feared that the thoughtlessness of my years 
might sometimes make me overstep the limits of quietism 
which he found necessary. 
Oodu-in, Mandeville, 1. 110. (Dames.) 
quietist (kwi'et-ist), . [= F. quietixte = Sp. 
Pg. It. quietista = G. quietist, < NL. quiettstti ; 
as quiet + -ist.~\ 1. One who believes in or 
practises quietism: applied especially [cnp.] 
to a body of mystics (followers of Molinos, a 
Spanish priest) in the latter part of the seven- 
teenth century. Somewhat similar views were held by 
the Euchites, Beghards, Beguines, Hesychasts, Brethren of 
the Free Spirit, and others of less not*. 
The best persons have always held it to be the essence 
of religion that the paramount duty of man upon earth is 
to amend himself ; but all except monkish quietists have 
annexed to this the additional duty of amending the world, 
and not solely the human part of it, but the material, the 
order of physical nature. J. S. Mill. 
2. One who seeks or enjoys quietness ; one who 
advocates a policy of quietness or inactivity. 
Too apt, perhaps, to stay where I am put. I am a quiet- 
ist by constitution. The Century, XXVL 280. 
quietistic (kwi-e-tis'tik), a. [< quietist + -ic.~\ 
Of or pertaining to quietists or quietism. 
Jeanne Marie . . . Guyon, ... a leading exponent of 
the quietistic mysticism of the 17th century. 
Encyc. Brit., XI. 841. 
quietive (kwi'et-iv), n. [< quiet + -ive.] That 
which has the property of inducing quiet or 
calm, as a sedative medicine. 
Every one knows of a few plants that are good as laxa- 
tives, emetics, sudorifics, or quietiees. 
Pop. Sd. Mo., XXVIII. 529. 
quietize (kwi'et-iz), ;. t. [< quiet, a., + -ize.] 
T"o make quiet ; calm. 
Solitude, and patience, and religion have now quietized 
both father and daughter into tolerable contentment. 
Mme. D'ArUay, Diary, V. 271. (Danes.) 
quietly (kwi'et-li), adv. In a quiet state or 
manner. Especially (a) Without motion or agitation ; 
in a state of rest. 
Lie quietly, and hear a little more ; 
Nay, do not struggle. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 709. 
(6) Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance ; peace- 
ably : as, to live quietly. 
After all these Outrages, the King proclaimed Pardon to 
all such as would lay down Arms ami go quietly home. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 138. 
(c) Calmly ; tranquilly ; without agitation or violent emo- 
tion; patiently. 
Quietly, modestly, and patiently recommend his estate 
to God. Jer. Taylor. 
Then came her father, saying in low tones 
"Have comfort," whom she greeted quietly. 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
(d) In a manner to attract little or no observation ; with- 
out noise : as, he quietly left the room. 
Sometimes . . . [Walpole] found that measures which 
he had hoped to carry through quietly had caused great 
agitation. Macaulay, Horace Walpole. 
He shut the gate quietly, not to make a noise, but never 
looked back. Mrs. Oliphant, Poor Gentleman, xxxvi. 
quietness (kwi'et-nes), n. [< ME. quietness; < 
quiet + -ness.] The state of being quiet, still, 
or free from action or motion ; freedom from 
agitation, disturbance, or excitement; tran- 
quillity; stillness; calmness. 
It is great quyetnesse to haue people of good behaviour 
in a house. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 64. 
Peace and quietness. Milton. 
In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. 
Isa. xxx. 15. 
quietoust (kwl'et-us), n. [< quiet + -CMS.] 
Quiet; peaceable. 
Bryngynge men to a guyetouse holde and sure step in 
the Lome. Bp. Bale, Image, i. 
quietouslyt (kwl'et-us-li), adr. [< quietous + 
-fy/ 2 .] In a quietous manner; quietly. Bp.Bale. 
quietsomet (kwl'et-sum), n. [< quiet + -some.'] 
Calm; still; undisturbed. 
But let the night be calme and quietsome. 
Spenser, Epithalamion, 1. 326. 
quietude (kwi'e-tud), n. [< F. quietude = Sp. 
quietud = It. quietiidiiie. < L. qiiielndu, quiet- 
quill 
ness, rest, calmness, for *</>iiiliiii/l/i,< qnietitx, 
quiet: see quiet, a.] Rest; repose; quiet; tran- 
quillity. 
A future quietude and serenitude in the affections. 
Sir H. H'littiiii, lit-liunin.-, p. 711. 
Never was there a more venerable quietude than that 
which slept among their sheltering boughs. 
Ilau'ttiurtit, Marble Faun, viii. 
There broods upon this charming hamlet an old-time 
quii'tmle anil privacy. //. James, Jr., Pass. Pilgrim, p. 42. 
quietus (kwi-e'tus), n. [< ML. quietus, or qui- 
etiis I'xt. (he is) 'free' or 'quitted,' i. e. he is 
discharged from the debt : a formula in noting 
the settlement of accounts: see quiet, a.] 1. 
A final discharge of an account ; a final settle- 
ment ; a quittance. 
Till I had signed your quietus. ' Wrlislrr. 
I hoped to put her off with half the sum ; 
That's truth; some younger brother would have thank'd 
me, 
And given [me] my quietus. Shirley, The Gamester, v. 1. 
Hence 2. A finishing or ending in general; 
stoppage. 
When he himself might hie quietus ma'ke 
With a bare bodkin. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 1. 75. 
Why, you may think there 's no being shot at without a 
little risk ; and if an unlucky bullet should carry a quietus 
with it I say it will be no time then to he bothering you 
about family matters. Sheridan, The Rivals, v. 3. 
3. A severe blow; a "settler." Halliwell. 
[Slang.] 
quightt, "dr. An erroneous spelling of quite 1 . 
qui-ni, qui-hye (kwi'hi'), n. [Hind, koi hai, 
'who is there?'] 1. In Bengal, the Anglo- 
Indian call for a servant, one being always in 
attendance, though not in the room. 
The seal motto [of a letter] qui M("who waits") de- 
noting that the bearer is to bring an answer. 
J. W. Palmer, The New and the Old, p. 298. 
2. Hence, the popular nickname for an Anglo- 
Indian in Bengal. 
The old boys, the old generals, the old colonels, the old 
qui-his from the club came and paid her their homage. 
Thackeray, Newcotnes, Ixii. (Dames.) 
Quiina (kwi-i'na), . [NL. (Aublet, 1775), from 
the native name in Guiana.] A genus of poly- 
petalous plants of the order Guttiferee, type of 
the tribe Quiincse. It is characterized by ovary-cells 
with two ovules, the numerous stamens and several styles 
all filiform, and the fruit a berry with fibrous interior and 
from one to four woolly seeds, each filled by the two thick 
and distinct seed-leaves. The 17 species are natives of 
tropical America. They are trees or shrubs or sometimes 
climbers, bearing opposite or whorled stipulate leaves, 
elegantly marked with transverse veinlets. The small 
flowers are arranged in short axillary panicles or terminal 
racemed clusters. Q. Jamaicenris is an entire-leafed spe- 
cies, known in Jamaica as old-woman's tree. 
Qtliineae (kwi-in'e-e), n. pi. [NL. (Bentham and 
tlooker, 1862), <' Quiina + -ex.] A tribe of 
dicotyledonous polypetalous plants of the order 
Guttiferte, consisting of the genus Quiina, the 
embryo haying large cotyledons and minute 
radicle, while in the rest of the order, except 
the Calophyllese, the radicle is large and the 
seed-leaves are minute. 
quilisma (kwl-lis'ma), n. [ML.. < Or. ni-)iaua, 
a roll, < Kvhietv, roll: see cylinder.] In medieval 
musical notation, a sign or neume denoting a 
shake or trill. 
quill 1 (kwil), . [< ME. "quille, quylle, a stalk 
(L. calamus); cf. LG. quiele, kiele = MHG. 
Ml, G. kiel, dial, keil, a quill; connections un- 
certain. Cf. OF. quille, a peg or pin of wood, 
a ninepin, < OHG. keail, MHG. G. kegel, a nine- 
pin, skittle, cone, bobbin : see kaitf. The Ir. 
cuille, a quill, is appar. < E.] 1. The stalk of 
a oane or reed. [Prov. Eng.] 2. A cane or 
reed pipe, such as those used in Pan's pipes. 
or they bene daughters of the hyghest Jove. 
nd holden scorne of homely shepheards 'j<i!/l. 
Spenser, Shep. I'al., June. 
On a countiy quill each plays 
Madrigals and pretty lays. 
Shirley, Love Tricks, iv. 2. 
He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, 
With eager thought warbling his Dorick lay. 
MMon, Lycidas, 1. 188. 
3. One of the large, strong feathers of geese, 
swans, turkeys, crows, etc., used for writing- 
pens and the like. 
Snatch thee a quill from the spread eagle's wing. 
Quarles, Emblems, i., Invoc. 
And reeds of sundry kinds, . . . more used than quHs 
by the people of these countreys. 
Saiuiys, Travailes, p. 110. 
4. A quill pen ; hence, by extension, any pen, 
especially considered as the characteristic in- 
strument of a writer. 
Thy Pencil triumphs o'er the poet's Quill. 
Congrew, To Sir Godfrey Kneller. 
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