Had Gallio wished to be severe, he might have put the quietus on Christianity for all time, for Saint Paul had all there was of it stowed in his valiant head and heart.
The practice and the term are now disused, but they evidently constituted the point of Hamlet’s allusion:-- When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin.
The first experiment of this kind was made by Trajan, when he brought over Lusius Quietusand his Mauri gentiles for the Dacian war,[280] but it was probably Hadrian who made the numeri a regular part of the military system.
Four years later, in 1854, the annexation movement received its quietus at the hands of Lord Elgin, when he secured the passage of the Reciprocity Treaty.
Her audit (though delayed) answered must be, And her quietus is to render thee.
I am quite tempted to give him his quietus and end this vigil.
I would put an eternal quietus upon my fortunate cousin here, did I not need his assistance in one or two matters concerning the method of running the business, which was known only to old Marsh and himself.
His quietus make] Quietus means the official discharge of an account: from the Latin.
My aunt Honor was the widow of a captain of dragoons, who got his quietus in the Low Countries some years before I saw the light.
At any rate it serves to give a quietus to the fantastic notion of the romancers that Beethoven had forgotten that he had the shares.
Laertes' poisoned blade gives the quietus to a still tortured soul.
He commanded the army that put a quietus on the Whisky boys in Pennsylvania.
The governor requested him to keep quiet a short time as troops would soon arrive to put a quietus upon the new fangled authorities.
Ziegler, he felt sure, would have grasped the position to a nicety, and would use every device in his apparently limitless repertoire to give him his quietus before Leonie's father set foot on shore.
If I do, by all means give me my quietus as mercifully as may be.
This conclusion, which incidentally gave a quietus to phrenology, was accepted generally, and became the stock doctrine of cerebral physiology for a generation.
But on the other hand it was in the same period that the English commissioners in Scotland put a quietus on the witch alarms in that kingdom.
The county was being terrified and entertained by the most horrible tales, when suddenly a quietus was put upon the affair "by some of them in authority.
Lusius Quietus under Trajan, a Moor and leader of a Moorish troop (Dio lxviii.
In France, too, it seemed, in the eighteenth century, as though Christianity had received its quietus by the same brutal means.
Amongst these they expressed a wish for the removal of the heartless Quietus and the restoration of the Temple.
The war of destruction waged by Lucius Quietusagainst the Babylonian and Mesopotamian Jews is but little known in its individual features.
Quietus left Palestine, and was soon afterwards executed at the command of Hadrian.
The Jews of Palestine, whose hatred towards the Romans was yet stronger, had already organized a rebellion, for the suppression of which Quietus had been sent out by Trajan, after he had completed his work in the lands of the Euphrates.
Before Quietus fell into disgrace he was about to pronounce sentence of death on the two Jewish leaders, Julianus and Pappus, who had fallen into his hands; they were to be executed in Laodicea.
I--I, Zenas, the detestable hunchback, who put the quietus to the young prince.
