Al"ien*ate (&?;), n.
A stranger; an alien. [Obs.]
Al"ien*ate (-āt), 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.
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 (āl"yen*&asl;t), a. [L. alienatus, p. p. of alienare, fr.
alienus. See Alien, and cf. Aliene.]
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
O
alienate from God.
Milton.
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