資料來源 : pyDict
最後的解除,償清,生命的終止
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
When he himself might his quietus make With a bare
bodkin. --Shak.
資料來源 : WordNet®
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}]