quietus

1. (figuratively) Death.Examples: "When he himſelfe might his Quietus make / With a bare Bodkin?"; "After a good deal of firing, and lying in wait - for every time he heard a shot down he'd go, and on coming to the surface, would only expose about two or three inches of his nose to fire at - we managed to give him his quietus."Synonyms: demise, fatality, death, celestial transfer, decease, decomposition, defunction, dematerializationdatedfigurativelyuncountableusually