quiesce, v.

(kwaɪˈɛs, kwɪ-)

[ad. L. quiēscĕre to be quiet, f. quiēs quiet n.]

1.1 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.

2.2 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 יוהא are said to quiesce in the vowels after which they are placed.