▪ I. † ˈalienate, ppl. a. and n. Obs.
Also 5 alyenate, 6 alyenat, 6–7 alienat.
[ad. L. aliēnāt-us pa. pple. of aliēnā-re: see alien v.]
A. ppl. adj.
1. Estranged, withdrawn or turned away in feeling or affection.
| 1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xii, Fer from hym selfe, he was so alyenate. 1582–8 Hist. James VI (1804) 17 The heartis of people are alienate from the lawfull prince. 1614 Raleigh Hist. World ii. 431 And as all alienate resolved hearts doe, they served themselves..with impudent excuses. a 1745 Swift Misc. (J.) The Whigs are..wholly alienate from truth. 1814 Cary Dante, Purg. xix. 113, I was a soul in misery, alienate From God. |
2. Foreign in nature or character, alien.
| 1599 A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physic 21/1 When as the woman is gravid with any alienat excrescence. 1620 Venner Via Recta iii. 57 They are..vnwholsome, and alienate from the taste of wholsome meates. 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 296/1 Nothing was more alienate from the comprehension of Sciences, than Poetry. |
3. Used as pple. of alien v.
| 1513 Bradshaw St. Werburge 204 Some other..diuers libertes haue alienate. 1538 Starkey England 151 Prouysyon made that nothyng schold be alyenat to the fraud of the law. |
4. Bot. = alienated 4.
| 1839 Hooper Med. Dict. |
B. n. An alien, stranger.
| 1552 Latimer Lord's Prayer v. II. 68 And keep us from invasions of alienates and strangers. 1566 Stapleton Ret. Untr. Jewel iv. 157 Whosoeuer eateth the lambe without this house, he is an alienat. |
▪ II. alienate, v.
(ˈeɪlɪəneɪt)
[f. alienate ppl. a. : see -ate.]
1. To make estranged; to estrange, or turn away the feelings or affections of any one; = alien v. 1.
| 1548 Udall etc. Erasm. Paraphr. Matt. vi. 12 And alienat not thy mynde awaye from us. 1614 Raleigh Hist. World ii. 366 Jotham..sought by his best perswasions to alienate the Sechemites. 1740 Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 285 Who had so visibly alienated the hearts of his theatrical subjects. 1769 Burke State Nation Wks. II. 113 Such projects have alienated our colonies from the mother country. 1855 Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) V. viii. viii. 19 If Matilda's pride had not alienated Henry of Winchester. |
2. To transfer to the ownership of another. Also absol. = the earlier alien v. 2.
| 1513 Bradshaw St. Werburge 203 Other have been glad to alienat the patronage of certayne churches. 1651 Hobbes Govt. & Soc. viii. §6. 130 The Lord may sell his Servant, or alienate him by Testament. 1681 Dryden Abs. & Achit. 434 What means he then, to Alienate the Crown? 1776 Adam Smith W.N. (1869) II. v. ii. 455 The vassal could not alienate without the consent of his superior. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 647 The 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.
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. iv (1676) 179/2 If such voluntary tasks..will not..alienate their imaginations. 1712 Addison Spect. No. 414 ¶4 To alienate so much ground from Pasturage. 1750 Johnson Rambl. No. 148 ¶11 Who alienates from him the assistance of his children. 1832 H. Martineau Homes Abr. ix. 127 This 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.
| 1553–87 Foxe A. & M. III. 538 Neither favour of his Prince..nor any other worldly respect could alienate or change his purpose. |