Dictionary

alienate

Webster 1828

A'LIENATE, verb transitive [Latin alieno.]1. To transfer title, property or right to another; as, to alienate lands, or sovereignty.2. To estrange; to withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; with from; as, to alienate the heart or affections; to alienate a man from the friends of his youth.3. To apply to a wrong use.They shall not alienate the first fruits of the land.Ezekiel 48:14.A'LIENATE, adjective [Latin alienatus.]Estranged; withdrawn from; stranger to; with from.O alienate from God, O spirit accurst.The whigs were alienate from truth