Search the Dictionary

Causing uneasiness. [R.] So distasteful and disquietous to a number of men. Milton.

Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.

To disquiet. [Obs.] Joye.

Disturbance. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

Unquietness. [Obs.] Joye.

Disturbed state; uneasiness either of body or mind; restlessness; disquietude. Sir H. Wotton.

Too much quietness. Sir. T. Browne.

A sepulcher. [Obs.] Weever.

To disquiet. [Obs.] Ld. Herbert.

Uneasiness; inquietude.

tly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness. W. Black.

To render quiet; to soothe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

rom avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.

fords consolation in old age. His tuneful Muse affords the sweetest numbers. Addison. The quiet lanes . . . afford calmer retreats. Gilpin.

To startle from quiet; to alarm. Smale foules a great heap That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep. Chaucer.

To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.

To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst.

Fig.: Any region or scene of simple pleasure and untroubled quiet. Where the cow is, there is Arcadia. J. Burroughs.

To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease. Soft whispering airs . . . becalm the mind. Philips.