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单词 quarantain
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quarantainn.

Forms: 1600s carentane, 1600s–1700s quarantaine, 1600s–1800s quarantain, 1700s quarantane.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French quarantaine.
Etymology: < French quarantaine quarantine n. Compare Italian quarantana (a1342 in sense 1, originally with reference to the forty days spent by Jesus in the desert; 1685 in sense 2a). Compare earlier quarantine n.In sense 3 after French quarantaine du Roi (1704). Although the custom was apparently introduced during the reign of King Philippe II, also called Philippe Auguste (who reigned 1179–1223), and formally instituted in a decree by Louis IX (who reigned from 1226–70; compare quot. 1728 for quarantain of the King n. at sense 3), the term used in early sources was simply quarantaine (1260 in Old French in this sense).
Obsolete.
1. = quarantine n. 3.
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > period of specific number of days
Lentc1450
quarantine1617
quarantain1638
soixantine1722
parson's week1790
nundine1860
trinundine1891
pentad1906
1638 G. Langbaine tr. G. Ranchin Rev. Councell Trent v. i. 253 Pope Innocent hath granted..two thousand eight hundred years, and as many quarantaines of true pardon.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. i. 1 It is above fourty quarantaines, or fourty times fourty nights, according to the supputation of the ancient Druids.
1664 Bp. J. Taylor Disswasive from Popery ii. iii. 86 In the Church of Sancta Maria de Popolo there are for every day in the year, two thousand and eight hundred years of pardon, besides fourteen thousand and fourteen Carentanes; which in one year amount to more than a Million.
1666 D. Coxe Let. Aug. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) III. 214 You might languish a long Quarantaine before itt would allow you the free disposall of yourselfe.
1723 S. L. Lloyd tr. F. A. Pouget Gen. Inst. Hist. & Tenets Relig. iii. v. 116 For having stolen Relicks, to restore them, and afterwards Fast seven Quarantaines.
1787 H. Walpole Let. 28 July in Wks. (1798) V. xlix. 503 Though he has all the honours of the quarantaine, I believe it often rained for forty days long before St. Swithin was born.
2.
a. = quarantine n. 4a.
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the world > health and disease > [noun] > good health > state of being conducive to > non-infectious condition > quarantine
quarantine1649
quarantain1669
cordon1826
isolation1891
purdah1912
1669 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 452 After having made their quarantaine and aired their goods.
1687 London Gaz. No. 2211/1 The Prince of Brunswicke keeps his Quarantain in the Island Lazaro.
1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant xi. 47 Those who come from infected Places, there to pass their Quarantain.
1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 236 Anchorage, ordinary Quarantain Charges, and such like.
1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire II. iii. ii. 225 The corpses which, to save themselves from the quarantaines, the inhabitants had..buried in their houses.
b. figurative. = quarantine n. 4b.
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1708 E. Arwaker Truth in Fiction ii. xxxi. 138 They who live in Vice's pois'nous Air,..e're they can their good Opinion gain, Must undergo a tedious Quarantain.
1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. Pref. p. xiv The Calumnies of his Enemies obliged him to a kind of Quarantane.
3. quarantain of the King n. (also King's quarantain) historical (in 13th cent. France) a period of forty days following a dispute between nobles, during which any kind of revenge or other reaction is forbidden, in order that a private war might be averted.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Quarantain of the King, is a Truce of forty Days appointed by S. Louis; during which it was expressly forbid to take any Revenge of the Relation or Friends of People.
1818 A. 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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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