Peace

Definition of Peace

A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose

At peace
in a state of peace.

Breach of the peace
See under Breach.

Justice of the peace
See under Justice.

Peace of God
a -	(Law) A term used in wills, indictments, etc., as denoting a state of peace and good conduct.
b -	(Theol.) The peace of heart which is the gift of God.

Peace offering
a -	(Jewish Antiq.) A voluntary offering to God in token of devout homage and of a sense of friendly communion with Him
b -	A gift or service offered as satisfaction to an offended person.

Peace officer
a civil officer whose duty it is to preserve the public peace, to prevent riots, etc., as a polliceman, sheriff or constable.

To hold one's peace
to be silent; to refrain from speaking.

To make one's peace with
to reconcile one with, to plead one's cause with, or to become reconciled with, another. - Shak.

v. t. & i.

To make or become quiet; to be silent; to stop.

When the thunder would not peace at my bidding.

- Shak.

Related Words

Pax Dei, Pax Romana, Peace of God, accord, accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, amity, armistice, arrangement, array, assent, ataraxia, ataraxy, awful silence, bonds of harmony, breathing spell, brotherly love, buffer zone, caritas, cease-fire, cement of friendship, charity, chorus, coherence, coincidence, commodiousness, communion, community, community of interests, compatibility, composure, concert, concord, concordance, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, consistency, consonance, consort, contemplation, convenience, cooling-off period, cooperation, correspondence, coziness, cushioniness, dead, dead of night, deathlike silence, demilitarized zone, deployment, disposal, disposition, easiness, empathy, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, formation, frictionlessness, friendliness, golden silence, good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmoniousness, harmony, hollow truce, homelikeness, homeliness, homeyness, hospitality, hush of night, identity, imperturbability, inaudibility, intersection, kinship, layout, like-mindedness, lineup, love, lucid stillness, lull, luxuriousness, marmoreal repose, marshaling, modus vivendi, mum, mutuality, neutral territory, nirvana, noiselessness, oneness, order, organization, overlap, pacification, parallelism, pax in bello, peace of mind, peaceableness, peacetime, placidity, placidness, proportion, quiescency, quietism, quietness, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, regularity, reposefulness, restfulness, roominess, routine, satori, self-consistency, setup, sharing, silentness, silken repose, sleep, slumber, snugness, softness, solemn silence, solidarity, soundlessness, stand-down, still, structure, suspension of hostilities, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, sync, synchronism, system, tacitness, taciturnity, tally, team spirit, temporary arrangement, timing, tomblike silence, treaty of peace, truce, understanding, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, unity, warmness, whisht, wise passiveness

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