peace (pes)

[ The king has also the sole prerogative of making war Black stone, Com., I. vii. and peace . (6) Freedom from agitation or disturbance by the pa ions, as from fear, terror, anger, or anxiety; quietne of mind; tranquillity; calmne ; quiet of conscience. Great peace have they which love thy law. Ps. cxix. 165. But now a joy too deep for sound, A peace no other season knows. Bryant, Summer Ramble. (c) A state of reconciliation between parties af variance; harmony; concord. "What tydinges now," quod he, "I praye yow saye." "Be of good chere," quod they, "dought ye no dele, Your pece is made, and all shall be right wele." Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1806. St. Anselm and his Peace or composition with Henry the R. W. Dizon , Hist. Church of Eng., ii. First. peaceably peace. See justice. Ki of peace. See ki .- Letters of peacet. Same as pacifical letters (which see, under Peace Congre . See congre , Peace Convention or Conference. Same as Peace Con gre . Peace establishment, the reduced quantity of military supplies and number of effective soldiers kept under arms in a standing army during time of peace. Peace money, in early Eng. hist., a payment or fine for breach of the public peace. Peace of God and the church, that ce ation which the king's subjects formerly had from trouble and suit of law between the terms and on Sun days and holidays. Peace Preservation Acts (Ireland), English statutes of 1870, etc., and especially the act of 1881. The last contained stringent provisions in regard to the carrying, importation, and sale of arms. - Peace resolves, in U. S. hist., a series of resolutions reported to the Congre of the United States by the Peace Congre of February, 1861, embodying suggestions for the averting of civil war. The king's (or queen's) peace, originally, the exemption or immunity secured by severe penalties to all within the king's house, in attendance on him, or employed on his busine , and gradually accorded to all within the realm who are not outlaws; the public peace, for the maintenance of which the sovereign is re sponsible. The peace. Same as ki of peace (which see, under ki ). - To hold one's peace. See hold1. So hold thi pees ; thow slest me with thi spec he. Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 455. To keep the peace, to abstain from violation of the public peace. See breach of the peace, under breach. - To make (a person's) peace (with another), to reconcile the other to him. I will make your peace with him. Shak . , T. N., iii. 4. 296. Treaty of peace. See treaty. = Syn. Stillne ; silence, (a) Amity. (b) Quiet , Tranquillity , etc. See rest. peacet (pēs), v. [ peacen , peasen , pecen , pesen, paisier , pacify, bring to peace, make peace; from the noun: see peace , n. Cf. appease .] I. in trans. To hold one's peace; be or become silent; hold one's tongue. Heruppon the people peacyd and stilled unto the tyme the shire was doon. Paston Letters, L. 180. I will not peace . B. Jonson, Alchemist, iii. 2. Then since, dear life! you fain would have me peace , And I, mad with delight, want wit to cease, Stop you my mouth. Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, L. 543) II. trans. To appease; quiet; allay. Which only oblation to be sufficient sacrifice, to peace the Father's wrath, and to purge all the sins of the world. Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), [p. 265.