requiescent

Borrowed from Latin requiēscēns (“resting, reposing, sleeping”), present participle of requiēscere, from re- + quiēscō (“rest, repose”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛkwiˈɛsənt/
• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

requiescent (comparative more requiescent, superlative most requiescent)

1. (uncommon) Quiescent; quiet; at rest.
   • 1857 February 7, Henry William Herbert, “William the Red”, in Ballou's Pictorial, volume XII, number 6, Boston, page 86, column 3:

     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.

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

     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.

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

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

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

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

requiēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of requiēscō