Obs. Also -ancy. [ad. It. quarantia, f. quaranta forty: cf. F. quarantie.] A former court of judicature at Venice, consisting of forty members.
1636. E. Dacres, trans. Machiavel’s Disc. Livy, I. 198. They have ordained the Quarantie, or counsell of forty.
1659. J. Harrington, Lawgiving, III. i. (1700), 439. After the manner of the Venetian Quarancys.
1707. J. Stevens, trans. Quevedo’s Com. Wks. (1709), 446. On his Right was one Chief of the Quarantie.
