quarantine

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  • v quarantine place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons "My dog was quarantined before he could live in England"
  • n quarantine isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
  • n quarantine enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease
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• • Quarantine A space of forty days; -- used of Lent.
  • Quarantine Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed.
  • Quarantine (Eng. Law) The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized.
  • v. t Quarantine To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious disease; to put under, or in, quarantine.
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• • n quarantine Aperiod of forty days. Specifically — The season of Lent.
  • n quarantine A term, originally of forty days, but now of varying length according to the exigencies of the case, during which a ship arriving in port and known or suspected to be infected with a malignant contagious disease is obliged to for-bear all intercourse with the place where she arrives. The United States first adopted a quarantine law in February, 1799. This law required federal officers to assist in executing State or municipal quarantine regulations. On April 29th, 1878, a national quarantine law was enacted, authorizing the establishment in certain contingencies of national quarantines.
  • n quarantine The enforced isolation of individuals and certain objects coming, whether by sea or by land, from a place where dangerous communicable disease is presumably or actually present, with a view to limiting the spread of the malady.
  • n quarantine Hence, by extension: The isolation of any person suffering or convalescing from acute contagious disease.
  • n quarantine The isolation of a dwelling or of a town or district in which a contagious disease exists.
  • n quarantine A place or station where quarantine is enforced.
  • n quarantine The restriction within limits awarded to naval cadets as a punishment.
  • quarantine To put under quarantine, in any sense of that word.
  • quarantine Figuratively, to isolate, as by authority.
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• • n Quarantine kwor′an-tēn a forced abstinence from communication with the shore which ships are compelled to undergo when they are last from some port where certain infectious diseases are raging—the time originally forty days:
  • v.t Quarantine to prohibit from intercourse from fear of infection
  • n Quarantine kwor′an-tēn (coll.) the isolation of a person, house, district, &c. afflicted with or recovering from contagious disease
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