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Bestill

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make quiet or still; calm; pacify. transitive

Etymology

From Middle English bistillen, bystillen (“to silence”), equivalent to be- + still. Perhaps and alteration of earlier Middle English istillen, ȝestillen (“to make still, calm”), from Old English ġestillan (“to calm, quieten, pacify, stop”).

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