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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
alienate
    v 1: arouse hostility or indifference in where there had
         formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She
         alienated her friends when she became fanatically
         religious" [syn: estrange, alienate, alien,
         disaffect]
    2: transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the
       property to the heirs" [syn: alien, alienate]
    3: make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated; "the
       boring work alienated his employees"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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   Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Alienate \Al"ien*ate\, n.
   A stranger; an alien. [Obs.]
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5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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.



Thesaurus Results for alienate:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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