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Quarantine
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(1):
(n.) The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized.
(2):
(v. t.) 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.
(3):
(n.) 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.
(4):
(n.) A space of forty days; - used of Lent.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Quarantine'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/q/quarantine.html. 1828.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Quarantine'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/q/quarantine.html. 1828.
