quit scores

present singular third person quits scores · participle present quitting scores · participle past quitted scores · past quitted scores

1. archaicidiomaticTo settle or balance accounts or differences; to make compensation.

   Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it?

   1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London

   1 more example

   28th Sept. 1648, Oliver Cromwell, letter And such, I hope, these will approve themselves to be. Let them therefore, if I be thought worthy of any favour, leave your Country with your good wishes and a blessing. I am confident they will be well bestowed. And I believe before it be long, you will be in their debt; and then it will not be hard to quit scores.

   Synonyms: settle scores, call it quits