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Webster 1913 Edition
Alienate
Al′ien-ate
(-āt)
, Verb.
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.
2.
To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; – with from.
The errors which . . .
alienated
a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay.
The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more
alienates
him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor.
Al′ien-ate
,Noun.
A stranger; an alien.
[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Alienate
A'LIENATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To transfer title, property or right to another; as, to alienate lands, or sovereignty.2.
To estrange; to withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; with from; as, to alienate the heart or affections; to alienate a man from the friends of his youth.3.
To apply to a wrong use.They shall not alienate the first fruits of the land.
Ezek. 48.
A'LIENATE
,Adj.
Estranged; withdrawn from; stranger to; with from.
O alienate from God, O spirit accurst.
The whigs were alienate from truth.