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<h1>Alienate</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw>Al"ien*ate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Alienated</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Alienating</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with <i>from</i>.</def>

<blockquote>The errors which . . . <b>alienated</b> a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more <b>alienates</b> him from the realities of the present. <i>I. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Alienate</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw>Al"ien*ate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A stranger; an alien.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Alienation</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw>Al`ien*a"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>ali\'82nation</ets>, L. <ets>alienatio</ets>, fr. <ets>alienare</ets>, fr. <ets>alienare</ets>. See <er>Alienate</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>alienation</b> of his heart from the king. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; <as>as, <ex>alienation</ex> of mind</as>.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangement; aberration; mania; delirium; frenzy; dementia; monomania. See <er>Insanity</er>.</syn>

<h1>Alienator</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw>Al"ien*a"tor</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who alienates.</def>

<h1>Aliene</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw>Al*iene</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; <as>as, <ex>to aliene</ex> an estate</as>.</def>

<h1>Alienee</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw>Al"ien*ee"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to <i>alienor</i>.</def>

<blockquote>It the <b>alienee</b> enters and keeps possession. <i>Blackstone.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Alienism</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw>Al"ien*ism</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.</def>

<blockquote>The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of <b>alienism</b>. <i>Kent.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The study or treatment of diseases of the mind.</def>

<h1>Alienist</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw>Al"ien*ist</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>ali\'82niste</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who treats diseases of the mind.</def>

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