requiescent

comparative more requiescent · superlative most requiescent

1. uncommonQuiescent; quiet; at rest.

   The requiescent Yates seemed to share a sardonic smile with the rug.

   1989, Walter Wangerin Jr., “The Shepherd Who Came In from the Cold”, in William Griffin, editor, Carnage at Christhaven, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 34

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   Confidence he must have had, in the highest, in his own resources, or he could never have believed himself able, after putting down the Norman faction by Saxon arms, to resume his own place at the head of his feudal nobility, and replace the nobility in their predominating height of pride above the requiescent natives. Yet all this he did.

   1857 February 7, Henry William Herbert, “William the Red”, in Ballou's Pictorial, volume XII, number 6, Boston, page 86, column 3

   Weep, oh ye kindred spirits, weep, That haunt the air, the earth, the deep; And where in peace thy Byron slumbers, Pour the requiescent numbers.

   1865, Mary Anne Reeve, “On the Death of Lord Byron”, in Lays from the West, London: Hall, Smart & Allen, page 21

   Truly, this is an hour for rest, for all nature is in a requiescent mood

   1881, “Big Valley Township”, in History of Napa and Lake Counties, California, San Francisco: Slocum, Bowen & Co., page 160