Word Meanings - QUIETUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; rest; death. When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak.

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• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• MIGHTILY
  1. In a mighty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully. Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Col. i. 29. 2. To a great degree; very much. Practical jokes amused
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• MIGHT
  Force or power of any kind, whether of body or mind; energy or intensity of purpose, feeling, or action; means or resources to effect an object; strength; force; power; ability; capacity. What so strong, But wanting rest, will also want of might
• MIGHTY
  1. Possessing might; having great power or authority. Wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Job ix. 4. 2. Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful. "His mighty works." Matt. xi. 20. 3. Denoting and extraordinary degree or quality
• FINAL
  1. Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term. Yet despair not of his final pardon. Milton. 2. Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a
• BODKIN
  An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a (more info) 1. A dagger. When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak.
• DEATHWARD
  Toward death.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• HIMSELF
  1. An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself.
• DISCHARGER
  One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
• DEATH
  Loss of spiritual life. To be death. Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death
• DEATHFULNESS
  Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.
• DEATH'S-HERB
  The deadly nightshade . Dr. Prior.
• OBLIGATION
  A bond with a condition annexed, and a penalty for nonfulfillment. In a larger sense, it is an acknowledgment of a duty to pay a certain sum or do a certain things. Days of obligation. See under Day. (more info) 1. The act of obligating. 2. That
• DEATHBED
  The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.
• MIGHTINESS
  1. The quality of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity. How soon this mightiness meets misery. Shak. 2. Highness; excellency; -- with a possessive pronoun, a title of dignity; as, their high mightinesses.
• QUIETUS
  Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; rest; death. When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• ALMIGHTINESS
  Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might. Jer. Taylor.
• ALMIGHTILY
  With almighty power.
• SMIGHT
  To smite. Spenser.
• DISCHARGE
  1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge
• ALMIGHTFUL; ALMIGHTIFUL
  All-powerful; almighty. Udall.