Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Alienate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Alienate \Al"ien*ate\, n.
A stranger; an alien. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Alienate \Al"ien*ate\ ([=a]l"yen*[asl]t), a. [L. alienatus, p.
p. of alienare, fr. alienus. See {Alien}, and cf. {Aliene}.]
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
O alienate from God. --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Alienate \Al"ien*ate\ (-[=a]t), 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.
2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of
averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to
estrange; to wean; -- with from.
The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and
priesthood from the House of Stuart. --Macaulay.
The recollection of his former life is a dream that
only the more alienates him from the realities of
the present. --I. Taylor.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
alienate
v : arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly
been love, affection, or friendliness [syn: {estrange}, {alien},
{disaffect}]
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