Definition of "quarantine" noun countable and uncountable , plural quarantines
A period of 40 days , particularly quotations
Quotations Now the Question seems to lye thus , where lay the Seeds of the Infection all this while ? How came it to stop so long , and not stop any longer ? Either the Distemper did not come immediately by Contagion from Body to Body , or if it did , then a Body may be capable to continue infected , without the Disease discovering itself , many Days , nay Weeks together , even not a Quarantine of Days only , but Soixantine , not only 40 Days but 60 Days or longer .
1722, Daniel Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year, page 235
A period , instance , or state of isolation from the general public or from native livestock and flora enacted to prevent the spread of any contagious disease . quotations examples
Quotations ‘... these people are always howling . Never happy otherwise ... the French people . They ’re always at it. As to Marseilles , we know what Marseilles is . It sent the most insurrectionary tune into the world that was ever composed . It couldn ’t exist without allonging and marshonging to something or other —victory or death , or blazes , or something .’‘Allong and marshong , indeed . It would be more creditable to you , I think , to let other people allong and marshong about their lawful business , instead of shutting ‘em up in quarantine Tiresome enough ,’ said the other .
1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, book the first (Poverty), page 12
verb third-person singular simple present quarantines , present participle quarantining , simple past and past participle quarantined