Alienate

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Alienate \Al"ien*ate\, n.
     A stranger; an alien. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Alienate \Al"ien*ate\ ([=a]l"yen*[asl]t), a. [L. alienatus, p.
     p. of alienare, fr. alienus. See {Alien}, and cf. {Aliene}.]
     Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
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           O alienate from God.                     --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Alienate \Al"ien*ate\ (-[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Alienated};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Alienating}.]
     1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or
        right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
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     2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of
        averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to
        estrange; to wean; -- with from.
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              The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and
              priesthood from the House of Stuart.  --Macaulay.
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              The recollection of his former life is a dream that
              only the more alienates him from the realities of
              the present.                          --I. Taylor.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  alienate
       v 1: arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly
            been love, affection, or friendliness [syn: {estrange},
            {alien}, {disaffect}]
       2: transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the
          property to the heirs" [syn: {alien}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  117 Moby Thesaurus words for "alienate":
     abalienate, abrupt, alter, amortize, antagonize, assign, barter,
     bequeath, brainwash, cast off, cast out, cede, change,
     come between, confer, consign, convert, convey, corrupt,
     counterindoctrinate, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, deed, deed over,
     delete, deliver, demise, depart, devolve upon, disaffect,
     disarticulate, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjoint,
     dissociate, disunify, disunite, divide, divorce, eject, embitter,
     enfeoff, envenom, estrange, exacerbate, exchange, expel,
     fan the flame, give, give title to, give up, hand, hand down,
     hand on, hand over, heat up, indoctrinate, infuriate, irritate,
     isolate, leave, light the fuse, madden, make over, make trouble,
     negotiate, part, pass, pass on, pass over, pit against, provoke,
     pull away, pull back, pull out, reindoctrinate, relinquish, remise,
     segregate, sell, separate, sequester, set against, set apart,
     set aside, set at odds, set at variance, set on, settle, settle on,
     shut off, sic on, sign away, sign over, sow dissension, split,
     stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, step aside, stir up trouble,
     subtract, subvert, surrender, throw off, throw out, trade,
     transfer, transmit, turn over, uncouple, unyoke, wean, win away,
     withdraw
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ALIENATE, aliene, alien. This is a generic term applicable to the various
  methods of transferring property from one person to another. Lord Coke, says,
  
  (1 Inst. 118 b,) alien cometh of the verb alienate, that is, alienum facere
  vel ex nostro dominio in alienum trawferre sive rem aliquam in dominium
  alterius transferre. These methods vary, according to the nature of the
  property to be conveyed and the particular objects the conveyance is
  designed to accomplish. It has been held, that under a prohibition to
  alienate, long leases are comprehended. 2 Dow's Rep. 210.