armistice - Dictionary definition and meaning for word armistice
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armi related to army stice can be related to ice .Army plays war with ice so it called cool war i.e.cease fire
break it as army-is-ice which means war has ended and hence army turned into ice(frozen)
armistice = arm + is + t +ice; The arms i.e. the weapons are in ice state not going to fire because a peace agreement is made between two parties.
The armed mystics had enough of the holy war: they wanted peace.