alienativeadj.
/ˈeɪlɪənətɪv/, U.S. /ˈeɪliəˌneɪdɪv/, /ˈeɪljəˌneɪdɪv/ 1. Law. That transfers or surrenders ownership of property rights; of, relating to, or characterized by alienation (alienation n. 3). Now rare.
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1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. i. xiii. 232 To come now to the constitution of the Property of Lands, in Fee and Heretage, the Feudal Contract is of it self alienative as Loan, Sale, Exchange.
1761 J. Lauder Decisions Lords of Council & Session 1678–1712 II. 76 Ere you can recover them, you must first prove that you lost the possession..by some title not alienative of the property, as loan or the like.
1821 M. P. Brown Treat. on Law of Sale 423 The very same doctrine is applied by all the authorities where they [sc. goods] have been lent or deposited, and..where they have not been given away upon an alienative title.
1880 Weekly Notes Cases Supreme Court Pennsylvania 23 Dec. 289/2 The devise created an active trust in favor of the daughter for life, with alienative limitations over in fee.
1918 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 10 May 3/2 Such a charge..is only equivalent..to a sort of equitable lien. It has no alienative effect and therefore does not disturb the unity of title.
2. Of or relating to alienation, that alienates (in various senses); esp. characterized by or causing feelings of isolation or estrangement.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [adjective] > tending to isolate
alienative1820
isolative1957
1820 London Med. Repository 14 23 The..power..by which a suppurative or alienative process surrounding the vessel [sc. an artery] goes on without detriment to it.
1873 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 293/2 A nation derives its strength..from its homogeneity, but two nations of a ‘common origin’ are alienated by this circumstance. All the more alienative is the circumstance if it is of the nature of an open question.
1897 Speaker 6 Nov. 514/1 The more the idea of the independence and sufficiency of the Church under its Invisible Head gains ground, the more will men feel the burdensome and alienative character of the Establishment.
1907 Jrnl. Mental Sci. Jan. 166 In the second chapter the nature of alienative disorders of function is considered, and it is pointed out that mental disorders are essentially disorders of the whole brain.
1989 M. G. Field Success & Crisis in National Health Syst. Introd. 19 Medical technology often tends to be alienative in that it depersonalizes treatment.
2009 J. Law Dict. Business & Managem. (ed. 5) at Psychological contract In an alienative contract the relationship between staff and the employing organization is negative. This traditionally applied..to staff working on production lines and in administrative hierarchies, in which they have very little control.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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