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What (who) is quietus - definition
USURPER OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (DIED 261)
quietus
n.
Acquittance, final discharge, settlement.
quietus
[kw??'i:t?s]
¦ noun (plural quietuses)
1. literary death or a cause of death, regarded as a release from life.
2. archaic something calming or soothing.
Origin
ME: abbrev. of med. L. quietus est (see quit), orig. used as a form of receipt on payment of a debt.
Quietus
·adj Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.
Wikipedia
Quietus
Titus Fulvius Junius Quietus (died 261) was a Roman usurper against Roman Emperor Gallienus.
Examples of use of quietus
1. The court was informed by the parties, after the settlement, that they want to give a quietus to the litigation so that DPC could be restarted.
2. In the upshot, the 1'6' Swansea trial administered its quietus to the FWA, but Lewis continued to nurse his nationalist convictions.
3. It features C–list celebs like Jordan and Brigitte Nielsen, and nutters from the audience boasting about their sexual proclivities (‘I like to dress as Batman‘). The series is supposed to return in the autumn, though personally I think it should be given a merciful quietus.
4. It may have started out possessing a certain virility, but, like being between a rock and a hard place (which I claim to have quarried from the Apocrypha circa 1'80) its long since lost any cutting edge and deserves to be given its quietus.