v. [ad. L. quiēscĕre to be quiet, f. quiēs QUIET sb.]
1. intr. To become quiescent; to subside into.
1833. Wild Sports of West, I. 27. Did tired nature quiesce for a moment, I was … roused with a tornado of … sounds.
1888. Howells, Annie Kilburn, xxx. 330. The village, after a season of acute conjecture, quiesced into … sufferance of the anomaly.
2. intr. Of a letter: To become silent; said of the feeble consonants in Hebrew when their sound is absorbed in that of a preceding vowel.
1828. Stuart, Elem. Heb. Lang. (1831), 25. A moveable consonant is one which is sounded, and does not quiesce or coalesce.
1853. J. R. Wolf, Practical Heb. Gr., 8. The letters [Hebrew] are said to quiesce in the vowels after which they are placed.
