Pratique is, strictly, a limited quarantine. A ship is said to have performed pratique when her captain has convinced the authorities of a port that his ship is free from contagious disease; and he is thereupon permitted to open trade and communication with the shore.
Pratique
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 378
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