[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

alienate \al"ienate\, n.
   a stranger; an alien. obs.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

alienate \al"ienate\ =al"yenaslt, a. l. alienatus, p.
   p. of alienare, fr. alienus. see alien, and cf. aliene.
   estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
   1913 webster

         o alienate from god.                     --milton.
   1913 webster
see also:
alien aliene 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

alienate \al"ienate\ -=at, 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.
      1913 webster

   2. to withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of
      averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to
      estrange; to wean; -- with from.
      1913 webster

            the errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and
            priesthood from the house of stuart.  --macaulay.
      1913 webster

            the recollection of his former life is a dream that
            only the more alienates him from the realities of
            the present.                          --i. taylor.
      1913 webster
see also:
alienated alienating 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

alienate
     v 1: arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly
          been love, affection, or friendliness syn: estrange,
          alien, disaffect
     2: transfer property or ownership; "the will aliened the
        property to the heirs" syn: alien
see also:
estrange alien disaffect 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

117 moby thesaurus words for "alienate":
   abalienate, abrupt, alter, amortize, antagonize, assign, barter,
   bequeath, brainwash, cast off, cast out, cede, change,
   come between, confer, consign, convert, convey, corrupt,
   counterindoctrinate, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, deed, deed over,
   delete, deliver, demise, depart, devolve upon, disaffect,
   disarticulate, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjoint,
   dissociate, disunify, disunite, divide, divorce, eject, embitter,
   enfeoff, envenom, estrange, exacerbate, exchange, expel,
   fan the flame, give, give title to, give up, hand, hand down,
   hand on, hand over, heat up, indoctrinate, infuriate, irritate,
   isolate, leave, light the fuse, madden, make over, make trouble,
   negotiate, part, pass, pass on, pass over, pit against, provoke,
   pull away, pull back, pull out, reindoctrinate, relinquish, remise,
   segregate, sell, separate, sequester, set against, set apart,
   set aside, set at odds, set at variance, set on, settle, settle on,
   shut off, sic on, sign away, sign over, sow dissension, split,
   stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, step aside, stir up trouble,
   subtract, subvert, surrender, throw off, throw out, trade,
   transfer, transmit, turn over, uncouple, unyoke, wean, win away,
   withdraw

[6] : 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.

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