Quiescence vs Capitulate - What's the difference?
quiescence | capitulate |
The state of being quiescent; dormancy.
Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless.
The action of bringing something to rest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a quiescent state.
*1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
*:I pray you, Salviatus, to tell me ... the cause of the Pendulum's quiescence .
(microbiology) When a cell is in a term of no growth and no division.
(obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
(obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
* Heylin
To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
* Macaulay
As a noun quiescence
is the state of being quiescent; dormancy.As a verb capitulate is
(obsolete) to draw up in chapters; to enumerate.quiescence
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(capitulat)- there capitulates with the king to take to wife his daughter Mary
- He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.
- The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated .