Found 2 items, similar to quietus.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: quietus quietus n : euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); “she was laid to rest beside her husband”; “they had to put their family pet to sleep” [syn: rest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Quietus Quietus \Qui*e"tus\, n. [LL. quietus quit, discharged, L., at rest, quiet, dead. See Quiet, a., and cf. Quit, a.] Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death. [1913 Webster] When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. --Shak. [1913 Webster]