Qui-e′tus
,
[LL.
quietus
quit, discharged, L., at rest, quiet, dead. See
Quiet
,
, and cf.
Quit
,
]
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.
Shakespeare