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† quarantain Obs.
Also 7 -aine, 8 -ane.
[ad. F. quarantaine (= It. quarantana), f. quarante forty: see next.]
1. A set of forty (nights). rare—1.
1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. i. 1 It is above fourty quarantaines, or fourty times fourty nights, according to the supputation of the ancient Druids.
2. = quarantine 2.
1669R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 452 After having made their quarantaine and aired their goods. 1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2211/1 The Prince of Brunswicke keeps his Quarantain in the Island Lazaro. 1702W. J. Bruyn's Voy. Levant xi. 47 Those who come from infected Places, there to pass their Quarantain.
attrib.1755N. Magens Insurances II. 236 Anchorage, ordinary Quarantain Charges, and such like.
b. fig. = quarantine 2 b.
1666–7Denham Direct. Paint. i. xvii, There let him languish a long Quarantain. 1714Let. fr. Layman (ed. 2) 23 This Crime..is never to be purged away; no not by performing a Quarantain for a Twelve-month in the Church. 1741Warburton Div. Legat. II. Pref. p. xiv, The Calumnies of his Enemies obliged him to a kind of Quarantane.
3. King's quarantain (tr. F. quarantaine du roi): see quots.
1727–41Chambers Cycl., Quarantain of the King, in France, denotes a truce of forty days appointed by St. Louis, during which it was expresly forbid to take any revenge [etc.]. 1818A. Ranken Hist. France IV. iii. i. 233 Forty days, called the King's quarantain, were allowed the friends or relations of a principal in a private war to grant or find security. |