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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Quiet, Quyet(t, v.¹ Also: quyatt-. [e.m.E. quiet (1526), f. Quiet adj.¹]

1. tr. To make or keep quiet, in various senses of Quiet adj.To quieten, pacify, calm a. a disturbance or outcry, b. a community or state, c. a person or persons or a person's mental state.a. 1567 Reg. Privy C. I 514.
Quhat greit alterationis and strange accidentis hes … occurit hir majesteis regnne … quhilkis all … ar happelie quietit and set doun be hir maiestie 1570 Leslie 79.
Quhairof thair appered greit deidly feid and bludshed bot the king tuk sic ordour … that the hole cause wes suddanlye quyeted and stancheit 1580 Fam. Innes 139.
Innermarkie hes keipit sindrie trystis … sen the slauchter to deuys quhow all thingis suld be quyattit and quhow he suld eschew the bruitt and sklander a1639 Spotsw. Hist. (1655) 415 marg.
The trouble quieted by Baclugh in Englandb. 1568 Lyndesay Pref. (S.T.S.) 403.
That God may be glorifyit: His Kirk edifyit: and this commoun weilth confortit, and quietitc. c1600 Johnston MS Hist. in Crim. Trials II 296.
That the haill commoun people com about the hous … crying allowd … till the king sent for the bailleis … and than thay quyetide the people 1619 Perth Kirk S. MS 9 Sept.
Reheirssall being maid of the said William Rynd his godles and outragious speichis [the council] deliberatis to commit him to waird … houping thairby he may be amendit and quietit in his mynd 1640 Boyd Lett. Comf. 5.
In your deepest doole, … to … quiet your self like a childe that is wained of his mother

2. ? intr. To become quiet or pacified, to ‘subside’. 1558-66 Knox II 160.
And this wes proclamet at the Croce efter nyne houris at nycht; and sa that truble quyetted