Early To Rise » Vocabulary Words http://www.earlytorise.com The Web's Most Popular Newsletter Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:00:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 Word to the Wise: Quietus http://www.earlytorise.com/2009/07/30/word-to-the-wise-quietus.html http://www.earlytorise.com/2009/07/30/word-to-the-wise-quietus.html#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:14:32 +0000 Early To Rise http://www.earlytorise.com/?p=8152 “Quietus” (kwy-EE-tus) – from the Latin for “he is at rest” – is a release from life; a final discharge of an obligation or debt.

Example (as used by William Shakespeare in Hamlet’s “To be, or not to be” soliloquy): “For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, / The oppressor’s wrong, / the proud man’s contumely [contempt], / The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay, / The insolence of office and the spurns / That patient merit of the unworthy takes, / When he himself might his quietus make / With a bare bodkin [dagger]?”

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Example (as used by Lauryn Hill in the lyrics to “Take It Easy”): “I got moxie, I’m so damn foxy / Industry try to block me like cops and paparazzi.”

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Example (as used by William Styron in the short story “Rat Beach”): “When I was seventeen, bravado, mingled with what must have been a death wish, made me enlist in the officer-training program of the Marine Corps.”

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Example (as used by Edward Gibbon): “My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.”

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Example (as used by Don Hauptman today): “Unless the writer is Tarzan or Frankenstein’s monster, he meant to say methinks, an archaic form of ‘I think’ or ‘It seems to me’ that, nowadays, is used only in a jocular fashion.”

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Example (as used in Shakespeare’s Henry IV): “Sometimes he angers me / With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant, / Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies, / And of a dragon and a finless fish… / And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff… .”

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