Quietive

Acceptable For Game Play - UK word list

This word is acceptable for play in the UK dictionary that is being used in the following games:

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. That which has the property of inducing quiet or calm, as a sedative medicine.
    • Word Usage
    "For every sort of pleasure is never anything more than the quietive of some need or longing; and that pleasure should come to an end as soon as the need ceases, is no more a subject of complaint than that a man cannot go on eating after he has had his dinner, or fall asleep again after a good night’s rest."
     
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