▪ I.†ˈalienate,ppl.a.andn.Obs.Also 5 alyenate, 6 alyenat, 6–7 alienat.[ad.L. aliēnāt-uspa.pple.of aliēnā-re: see alien v.]A.ppl.adj.1.Estranged, withdrawn or turned away in feeling or affection.1430Lydg.Chron.Troy ii.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) 17The heartis of people are alienate from the lawfull prince.
1614RaleighHist.World ii. 431And as all alienate resolved hearts doe, they served themselves..with impudent excuses.
a1745SwiftMisc.(J.)The Whigs are..wholly alienate from truth.
1814CaryDante,Purg.xix. 113,I was a soul in misery, alienate From God.
2.Foreign in nature or character, alien.1599A. M.tr.Gabelhouer'sBk.Physic 21/1When as the woman is gravid with any alienat excrescence.
1620VennerVia Recta iii. 57They are..vnwholsome, and alienate from the taste of wholsome meates.
1660T. StanleyHist.Philos.(1701) 296/1Nothing was more alienate from the comprehension of Sciences, than Poetry.
3.Used aspple.of alien v.1513BradshawSt.Werburge 204Some other..diuers libertes haue alienate.
1538StarkeyEngland 151Prouysyon made that nothyng schold be alyenat to the fraud of the law.
4.Bot.=alienated 4.1839HooperMed.Dict.
B.n.An alien, stranger.1552LatimerLord's Prayer v. II. 68And keep us from invasions of alienates and strangers.
1566StapletonRet.Untr. Jewel iv. 157Whosoeuer eateth the lambe without this house, he is an alienat.
▪ II.alienate,v.|ˈeɪlɪəneɪt|[f.alienateppl.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. 12And alienat not thy mynde awaye from us.
1614RaleighHist.World ii. 366Jotham..sought by his best perswasions to alienate the Sechemites.
1740CibberApol.(1756) I. 285Who had so visibly alienated the hearts of his theatrical subjects.
1769BurkeState NationWks.II. 113Such projects have alienated our colonies from the mother country.
1855MilmanLat.Chr.(1864) V. viii. viii. 19If Matilda's pride had not alienated Henry of Winchester.
2.To transfer to the ownership of another. Also absol.=the earlier alien v. 2.1513BradshawSt.Werburge 203Other have been glad to alienat the patronage of certayne churches.
1651HobbesGovt.&Soc.viii. §6. 130The Lord may sell his Servant, or alienate him by Testament.
1681DrydenAbs. & Achit. 434What means he then, to Alienate the Crown?
1776Adam SmithW.N. (1869) II. v. ii. 455The vassal could not alienate without the consent of his superior.
1855MacaulayHist.Eng.IV. 647The 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.1621BurtonAnat.Mel. ii. ii. iv (1676) 179/2If such voluntary tasks..will not..alienate their imaginations.
1712AddisonSpect.No.414 ⁋4To alienate so much ground from Pasturage.
1750JohnsonRambl.No.148 ⁋11Who alienates from him the assistance of his children.
1832H. MartineauHomesAbr.ix. 127This 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.1553–87FoxeA. & M. III. 538Neither favour of his Prince..nor any other worldly respect could alienate or change his purpose.
