Word Meanings - ASSUAGEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Mitigation; abatement.
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- ROUSE
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. - AGITATE
1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly - EXCITEFUL
Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman. - QUIETER
One who, or that which, quiets. - DISTURBANCE
The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil; - QUIET
p. pf quiescere to rest, keep quiet; akin to quies rest, and prob. to E. while, n. See While, and cf. Coy, a., Quiesce, Quietus, Quit, a., 1. In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air. They - ASSUAGEMENT
Mitigation; abatement. - ROUSER
A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rouses. 2. Something very exciting or great. - QUIETISM
The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes. (more info) 1. Peace - QUIETSOME
Calm; still. Spenser. - QUIETLY
1. In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly. 2. Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly. 3. Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion; - QUIETISTIC
Of or pertaining to the Quietists, or to Quietism. - CESSATION
A ceasing of discontinuance, as of action, whether termporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war. The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. Motley. The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward. - SUBSIDENCE; SUBSIDENCY
The act or process of subsiding. The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions. Bp. Warburton. - AGITATEDLY
In an agitated manner. - QUIETAGE
Quietness. Spenser. - QUIETUS
Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; rest; death. When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak. - QUIESCENCE; QUIESCENCY
The state or quality of being quiescent. "Quiescence, bodily and mental." H. Spencer. Deeds will be done; -- while be boasts his quiescence. R. Browning. - DISTURB
desturber, destourber, fr. L. disturbare, disturbatum; dis- + turbare 1. To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest. Preparing to disturb With all-cofounding war the realms - DISTURBATION
Act of disturbing; disturbance. Daniel. - DISQUIETTUDE
Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp. - TROUSERING
Cloth or material for making trousers. - EFFLAGITATE
To ask urgently. Cockeram. - DISQUIETLY
In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman. - UNQUIET
To disquiet. Ld. Herbert. - TROUSE
Trousers. Spenser. - DISQUIETMENT
State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment. Hopkins. - AROUSE
To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the - CROUSE
Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent. Burns. - OVERAGITATE
To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient. Bp. Hall. - DISQUIETOUS
Causing uneasiness. So distasteful and disquietous to a number of men. Milton. - INQUIETATION
Disturbance. Sir T. Elyot. - OVEREXCITE
To excite too much. - INQUIET
To disquiet. Joye.