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▪ I. † ˈalienate, ppl. a. and n. Obs.
Also 5 alyenate, 6 alyenat, 6–7 alienat.
[ad. L. aliēnāt-us pa. pple. of aliēnā-re: see alien v.]
A. ppl. adj.
1. Estranged, withdrawn or turned away in feeling or affection.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xii, Fer from hym selfe, he was so alyenate. 1582–8Hist. James VI (1804) 17 The heartis of people are alienate from the lawfull prince. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. 431 And as all alienate resolved hearts doe, they served themselves..with impudent excuses. a1745Swift Misc. (J.) The Whigs are..wholly alienate from truth. 1814Cary Dante, Purg. xix. 113, I was a soul in misery, alienate From God.
2. Foreign in nature or character, alien.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physic 21/1 When as the woman is gravid with any alienat excrescence. 1620Venner Via Recta iii. 57 They are..vnwholsome, and alienate from the taste of wholsome meates. 1660T. Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 296/1 Nothing was more alienate from the comprehension of Sciences, than Poetry.
3. Used as pple. of alien v.
1513Bradshaw St. Werburge 204 Some other..diuers libertes haue alienate. 1538Starkey England 151 Prouysyon made that nothyng schold be alyenat to the fraud of the law.
4. Bot. = alienated 4.
1839Hooper Med. Dict.
B. n. An alien, stranger.
1552Latimer Lord's Prayer v. II. 68 And keep us from invasions of alienates and strangers. 1566Stapleton Ret. Untr. Jewel iv. 157 Whosoeuer eateth the lambe without this house, he is an alienat.
▪ II. alienate, v.|ˈeɪlɪəneɪt|
[f. alienate ppl. a. : see -ate.]
1. To make estranged; to estrange, or turn away the feelings or affections of any one; = alien v. 1.
1548Udall etc. Erasm. Paraphr. Matt. vi. 12 And alienat not thy mynde awaye from us. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. 366 Jotham..sought by his best perswasions to alienate the Sechemites. 1740Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 285 Who had so visibly alienated the hearts of his theatrical subjects. 1769Burke State Nation Wks. II. 113 Such projects have alienated our colonies from the mother country. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) V. viii. viii. 19 If Matilda's pride had not alienated Henry of Winchester.
2. To transfer to the ownership of another. Also absol. = the earlier alien v. 2.
1513Bradshaw St. Werburge 203 Other have been glad to alienat the patronage of certayne churches. 1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. viii. §6. 130 The Lord may sell his Servant, or alienate him by Testament. 1681Dryden Abs. & Achit. 434 What means he then, to Alienate the Crown? 1776Adam Smith W.N. (1869) II. v. ii. 455 The vassal could not alienate without the consent of his superior. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 647 The King was not at perfect liberty to alienate any part of the estates of the Crown.
3. fig. (combining 1 and 2) To turn away, transfer.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. iv (1676) 179/2 If such voluntary tasks..will not..alienate their imaginations. 1712Addison Spect. No. 414 ⁋4 To alienate so much ground from Pasturage. 1750Johnson Rambl. No. 148 ⁋11 Who alienates from him the assistance of his children. 1832H. Martineau Homes Abr. ix. 127 This is done by alienating capital from its natural channels.
†4. [One of the senses of L. aliēnāre.] To alter, change, or make a thing other than it is. Obs.
1553–87Foxe A. & M. III. 538 Neither favour of his Prince..nor any other worldly respect could alienate or change his purpose. |