Also 9 quaranteen. [f. the sb.]
1. trans. To put in quarantine.
1804. W. Irving, in Life & Lett. (1864), I. v. 89. Where I should be detained, quarantined, smoked, and vinegared.
1860. Trollope, W. Ind., xxiii. 365. In going to Cuba I had been becalmed … and very nearly quaranteened.
1891. Cath. News, 2 May, 5/3. The Comte de Paris was quarantined for a short time at Southampton.
b. To prevent by quarantine. In quot. fig.
1850. Chamb. Jrnl., XIV. 49. Did any moral taint hang about me that quarantined my entrance into its circle?
2. intr. To institute quarantine.
1888. L. Hearn, in Harper’s Mag., Oct., 738/1. Only two cases had been reported when every neighboring British colony quarantined against Martinique.
Hence Quarantined, Quarantining ppl. adjs.; also Quarantiner, one who puts, or is put, into quarantine.
1831. Scott, Jrnl., II. 444. The guardians, who attend to take care that we quarantiners do not kill the people whom we meet.
1884. Manch. Exam., 21 Nov., 5/4. The … block in which the quarantined person is located.
1891. Lancet, 3 Oct., 777/1. Egypt … always has been … a quarantining country.
