abalienate

verb
/æbˈeɪl.jəˌneɪt/US

Etymology

From Latin abaliēnātus, perfect passive participle of abaliēnō (“alienate; remove”); from ab- (“by, from; away”) + aliēnō (“alienate, estrange”); from aliēnus (“foreign, alien”), from alius (“other, another”). Equivalent to ab- + alienate.

  1. derived from abaliēnātus

Definitions

  1. To make another's that which was once yours

    To make another's that which was once yours; to transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.

    • Thereat the holy mother took grief; for, if I died before my profession, what would become of the goodly hereditaments that were to be abalienated to the monastery.
  2. To estrange in feeling

    To estrange in feeling; to cause alienation of.

    • […] serves for nothing else than to abalienate the Infidels from the Christian Church.
    • National distinction did not, indeed, exist in patriarchal times, but by the formation of the theocracy the other races of men were formally abalienated from Israel, and no doubt their own vices and idolatry justified their exclusion.
  3. To to cause loss or perversion of intellect.

    • The devil and his deceitful angels do so bewitch them, and fill their hearts with vain cogitations, so abalienate their minds, and trouble their memory, that they cannot tell what is said: it is forgotten by that it is spoken.

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