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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_163565" /> == | |||
<p> (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. </p> <p> (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. </p> <p> (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. </p> <p> (4): (n.) A space of forty days; - used of Lent. </p> | |||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_78546" /> == | |||
<p> The prescribed time, generally 40 days (hence the name), of non-intercourse with the shore for a ship suspected of infection, latterly enforced, and that very strictly, in the cases of infection with yellow fever or plague; since November 1896, the system of quarantine as regards the British Islands has ceased to exist. </p> | <p> The prescribed time, generally 40 days (hence the name), of non-intercourse with the shore for a ship suspected of infection, latterly enforced, and that very strictly, in the cases of infection with yellow fever or plague; since November 1896, the system of quarantine as regards the British Islands has ceased to exist. </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_163565"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/quarantine Quarantine from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_78546"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/quarantine Quarantine from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_78546"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/quarantine Quarantine from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 14:07, 12 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(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.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
The prescribed time, generally 40 days (hence the name), of non-intercourse with the shore for a ship suspected of infection, latterly enforced, and that very strictly, in the cases of infection with yellow fever or plague; since November 1896, the system of quarantine as regards the British Islands has ceased to exist.
