Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

stagnancy; fixity, immobility, catalepsy; indisturbance†; quietism. quiet, tranquility, calm; repose &c 687; peace; dead calm, anticyclone†; statue-like repose; silence &c 203; not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring; sleep &c (inactivity) 683. pause, lull &c (cessation) 142; stand still; standing still &c v.; lock; dead lock, dead stop, dead stand; full stop; fix; embargo. resting place; gite [Fr.]; bivouac; home &c (abode) 189; pillow &c (support) 215; haven &c (refuge) 666; goal &c (arrival) 292. V. be quiescent &c adj.; stand still, lie still; keep quiet, repose, hold the breath. remain, stay; stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry, mark time; bring to, heave to, lay to; pull up, draw up; hold, halt; stop, stop short; rest, pause, anchor; cast to an anchor, come to an anchor; rest on one's oars; repose on one's laurels, take breath; stop &c (discontinue) 142. stagnate; quieta non movere [Lat.]; let alone; abide, rest and be thankful; keep within doors, stay at home, go to bed. dwell &c (be present) 186; settle &c (be located) 184; alight &c (arrive) 292; stick, stick fast; stand like a post; not stir a peg, not stir a step; be at a stand &c n.. quell, becalm, hush, stay, lull to sleep, lay an embargo on. Adj. quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary; immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still; standing still &c v.; sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed, stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful; cataleptic; immovable &c (stable) 150; sleeping &c (inactive) 683; silent &c 403; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death; vegetative, vegetating. Adv. at a stand &c adj.; tout court; at the halt. Int. stop!, stay!, avast!, halt!, hold hard!, whoa!, hold!, sabr karo!†. Phr. requiescat in pace [Lat.]; Deus nobis haec otia fecit [Lat.] [Vergil]; the noonday quiet holds the hill [Tennyson].