noun. Something that serves to suppress, check, or eliminate.

noun. Release from life; death.

noun. A final discharge, as of a duty or debt.

noun. A final discharge of an account; a final settlement; a quittance.

noun. Hence A finishing or ending in general; stoppage.

noun. A severe blow; a “settler.”

noun. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.

noun. A stillness or pause; something that quiets or represses; removal from activity; especially: death.

noun. Final settlement (as of a debt).

noun. euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

"Quietus is a short form of the term quietus est or abeinde recessit quietus, the formulae used in the Court of the Exchequer to show that an account has been correctly presented and cleared."

quiescence  quiet  quietude  

death  

Diem  acceptus  adsensum  adsentietur  affectu  

KO  Waterloo  Z  absolution  acquittal