1755 D. Ingram Hist. Acct. Several Plagues Introd. p. ii It would have saved great treasure..as well as fatigue and trouble of quarantining.

1792 J. Watkins Ess. Hist. Bideford ii. 42 No such necessary precaution as quarantining [was] in use.

1832 E. C. Wines Two Years & Half in Navy I. 64 Suspension and quarantining are much dreaded by the midshipmen... What can be a greater bore to a man..than to be debarred the privilege of going ashore?

1870 N.Y. Herald 22 June 6/4 The quarantining of vessels that have no sickness on board.

1901 Times 29 Nov. 11/6 The proposed compulsory inspection and quarantining of people in common lodging-houses.

1946 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 30 Aug. 2/5 Nothing is to be gained by spectacular halfway measures like mass quarantining.

1991 N.Y. Times 10 Dec. c3/1 Health experts have recently called for..strict quarantining of H.I.V.-infected people who exhibit symptoms that might indicate tuberculosis.

1891 Lancet 3 Oct. 777 Egypt..always has been..a quarantining country.

1996 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 6 July 4 A clove [of garlic] held in the mouth was believed to ward off the disease. Perhaps it did; the practice would tend to keep others at a quarantining distance.

2004 M2 PressWIRE (Nexis) 28 Oct. It protects customers by remotely scanning incoming emails for viruses, obvious spam and known bad senders. It incorporates a quarantining feature.