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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which has the property of inducing quiet or calm, as a sedative medicine.
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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.
Counsels and Maxims 1518
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