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[PEA-BEETLE.] pēaçe, *pais, *pees, *pes, s . [O. Fr. pais (Fr. paix ), from Lat. pacem , acc us. of pax =peace; Sp. & Port. paz ; Ital.pace.] A state of quiet or tran quillity; freedom from or absence of disturbance, agitation, or disorder; as 1. Freedom or exemption from war or hostilities; absence of civil or foreign strife, contention, or quarrel. "Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease! He makes a solitude, and calls it- peace." Byron: Bride of Abydos , ii. 20. 2. Public tranquillity; quiet and order as guaranteed and secured by the laws. "This alarming breach of the peace ." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xvi. of hostilities; then comes the protocol, or a preliminary peace. The preliminary peace is not the same as an armistice. An armistice leaves the question of the war unsettled; the preliminary peace comes only after an a urance of redre is obtained. The protocol usually provides that each of the contending nations shall appoint a certain number of commi ioners to negotiate a treaty of peace. [PROTOCOL, TREATY.]