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Quiet
a.
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Freedom from disturbance, noise, or alarm; stillness; tranquillity; peace; security.
Quieted
imp. & p. p.
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of Quiet
Quieting
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Quiet
Quiet
v. t.
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To stop motion in; to still; to reduce to a state of rest, or of silence.
Quiet
v. t.
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To calm; to appease; to pacify; to lull; to allay; to tranquillize; as, to quiet the passions; to quiet clamors or disorders; to quiet pain or grief.
Quiet
v. i.
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To become still, silent, or calm; -- often with down; as, be soon quieted down.
Quietage
n.
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Quietness.
Quieter
n.
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One who, or that which, quiets.
Quietism
n.
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Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.
Quietism
n.
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The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes.
Quietist
n.
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One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism.
Quietistic
a.
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Of or pertaining to the Quietists, or to Quietism.
Quietly
adv.
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In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly.
Quietly
adv.
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Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly.
Quietly
adv.
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Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion; patiently; as, to submit quietly to unavoidable evils.
Quietly
adv.
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Noiselessly; silently; without remark or violent movement; in a manner to attract little or no observation; as, he quietly left the room.
Quietness
n.
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The quality or state of being quiet; freedom from noise, agitation, disturbance, or excitement; stillness; tranquillity; calmness.
Quietsome
a.
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Calm; still.
Quietude
n.
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Rest; repose; quiet; tranquillity.
Quietus
a.
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Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.
Quill
n.
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One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.
Quill
n.
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A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill.
Quill
n.
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A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
Quill
n.
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The pen of a squid. See Pen.
Quill
n.
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The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
Quill
n.
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The tube of a musical instrument.
Quill
n.
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Something having the form of a quill
Quill
n.
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The fold or plain of a ruff.
Quill
n.
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A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
Quill
n.
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A hollow spindle.