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quietus (n.)
"discharge, clearing of accounts," 1530s, short for Medieval Latin phrase
quietus est
"he is quit" (see
quit
). Hence, "death" (i.e. "final discharge"), c. 1600. Latin
quies
also was used for "the peace of death."
