[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

quietus \quie"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
see also:
quiet quit 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
rest eternal rest sleep eternal sleep 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

178 moby thesaurus words for "quietus":
   ko, waterloo, z, absolution, acquittal, acquittance, annihilation,
   apodosis, bane, beating, biological death, catastrophe, ceasing,
   cessation, cessation of life, clearance, clearing, clincher,
   clinical death, coda, collapse, compurgation, conclusion,
   conquering, conquest, consummation, crack of doom, crash,
   crossing the bar, crusher, culmination, curtain, curtains, death,
   death knell, death stroke, deathblow, debacle, debt of nature,
   decease, defeat, demise, denouement, departure, destigmatization,
   destigmatizing, destination, destiny, destruction, discharge,
   disculpation, dismissal, dissolution, doom, downfall, drubbing,
   dying, ebb of life, effect, end, end of life, end point, end-all,
   ender, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, eternal rest,
   exculpation, excuse, exit, exoneration, expiration, extinction,
   extinguishment, failure, fall, fate, final solution, final stroke,
   final summons, final twitch, final words, finale, finality,
   finger of death, finis, finish, finisher, finishing stroke,
   forgiveness, goal, going, going off, grave, hand of death, hiding,
   izzard, jaws of death, kayo, kayo punch, knell, knockout,
   knockout blow, lambasting, last, last breath, last dab, last debt,
   last gasp, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep,
   last things, last trumpet, last words, lathering, latter end,
   leaving life, licking, loss of life, making an end, mastery, omega,
   overcoming, overthrow, overturn, pardon, parting, passing,
   passing away, passing over, payoff, period, perishing, peroration,
   purgation, purging, quittance, release, remission, resolution,
   rest, resting place, reward, ruin, sentence of death, settler,
   shades of death, shadow of death, silence, sleep, smash,
   sockdolager, somatic death, stoppage, stopper, stopping place,
   subdual, subduing, subjugation, summons of death, swan song, term,
   terminal, termination, terminus, thrashing, trimming, trouncing,
   undoing, vanquishment, verdict of acquittal, vindication, whipping,
   windup

[4] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

quietus, eng. law. a discharge; an acquittance.
     2. it is an instrument by the clerk of the pipe, and auditors in the 
exchequer, as proof of their acquittance or discharge to accountants. cow. 
int. h.t. 

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QUIETUS - Gothic Literary Magazine
...... before the Witches' Sabbath, October 30, 1931. Order Quietus Magazine ... ..
http://www.quietusmag.com/, score=100, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 11:40 pm

Quietus Interruptus
...Quietus Interruptus. by Helena Handbasket Clark awoke with a start, a ... ..
http://smallville.slashdom.com/archive/7/quietusinterruptus.html, score=56, date indexed=January 20, 2006, 1:58 am

Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: quietus
...Quietus is from Medieval Latin quietus (est), "(it is) at rest" (said ... I have put a quietus upon that ticking. Depend upon it, the ticking ... ..
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2004/02/18.html, score=55, date indexed=November 19, 2005, 5:29 pm

Roman Coins of Quietus
...... led by Quietus' father and brother. Eight months later, Quietus. was ... Quietus. declared emperor. The new rulers drove the Persians out of ... ..
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/roman-coins.asp?vpar=734&pos=0&iop=1, score=51, date indexed=January 12, 2006, 3:43 am

QUIETUS - Gothic Literature Magazine
...QUIETUS MAGAZINE. Volume One, Issue One. QUIETUS MAGAZINE. Volume One ... Quietus:. Viir Exeter, Editor, Page Layout, Graphics Design.. EJ ... ..
http://www.quietusmag.com/Intro.html, score=47, date indexed=November 26, 2005, 7:30 am

quietus
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http://www.quietus.com/, score=44, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 7:34 am

Roman Coins of Quietus
...... led by Quietus' father and brother. Eight months later, Quietus. was ... Quietus. declared emperor. The new rulers drove the Persians out of ... ..
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/roman-coins.asp?vpar=734&pos=0&iop=20, score=42, date indexed=January 12, 2006, 3:28 am

Roman Coins of Quietus
...... led by Quietus' father and brother. Eight months later, Quietus. was ... Quietus. declared emperor. The new rulers drove the Persians out of ... ..
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/roman-coins.asp?vpar=734&pos=0&iop=5, score=42, date indexed=January 11, 2006, 10:40 pm

quietus
...TBN 2 EX PRETTY OCEAN MTDW 6985 BUILT 1995 KOREA TEUS 420 quietus. TBN ... Open Vessel for Shipment 3500 Load ton quietus. Vessel Open for load ... ..
http://www.maritimecentral.com/s/16487/quietus.htm, score=42, date indexed=November 16, 2005, 4:41 pm

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