Definition of Quarantines

1. Noun. (plural of quarantine) ¹

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Definition of Quarantines

1. quarantine [v] - See also: quarantine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quarantines

quantum well
quantum yield
quantumlike
quantumly
quantumness
quaquaversal
quaquaversally
quar
quarantinable
quarantine flag
quarantine period
quarantined
quarantiner
quarantiners
quarantines (current term)
quarantining
quare
quare clausum fregit
quarer
quarest
quarg
quargs
quark
quark-gluon plasma
quark cheese
quark star
quarkless
quarkonia
quarkonic

Literary usage of Quarantines

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Health of Nations: A Review of the Works of Edwin Chadwick by Edwin Chadwick, Benjamin Ward Richardson (1887)
"ORIGINAL DEFENCES BY quarantines. WHY DISCARDED. " Those of the old routine were for the outer defences by strict quarantines, and, when these defences were ..."

2. The Health of Nations: A Review of the Works of Edwin Chadwick by Edwin Chadwick, Benjamin Ward Richardson (1887)
"ORIGINAL DEFENCES BY quarantines. WHY DISCARDED. " Those of the old routine were for the outer defences by strict quarantines, and, when these defences were ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... years, day, and quarantines. The penitential canons may be divided into three classes corresponding to the penitential discipline of the East, of Rome, ..."

4. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1902)
"Meantime additional legislation might enlarge its powers and duties in the management of quarantines, until it might attain, first, to a supervisory, and, ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1875)
"Article, quarantines. By Dr. LÉON COLIN, Principal Physician of the Army, Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Val-de-Grace. 2. ..."

6. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1836)
"... Islamism and its Influence; The Plague, its Causes, Varieties, Progress, and Treatment; The Non-contagion of that Malady; quarantines and ..."

7. Handbook of Canada by Robert Ramsay Wright, James Mavor (1897)
"There is a medical officer as General Superintendent of Canadian quarantines. Each Quarantine Station is in the immediate charge of a specially appointed ..."

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