Abalienate

Quick meaning: Abalienate is a verb meaning (civil law, transitive) To make another's that which was once yours; to transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.

Meaning

(civil law, transitive) To make another's that which was once yours; to transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) To estrange in feeling; to cause alienation of.
2. (obsolete) To to cause loss or perversion of intellect.

Example Sentences

[…] serves for nothing else than to abalienate the Infidels from the Christian Church.

Thereat the holy mother took grief; for, if I died before my profession, what would become of the goodly hereditaments that were to be abalienated to the monastery.

The devil and his deceitful angels do so bewitch them, and fill their hearts with vain cogitations, so abalienate their minds, and trouble their memory, that they cannot tell what is said: it is forgotten by that it is spoken.

National distinction did not, indeed, exist in patriarchal times, but by the formation of the theocracy the other races of men were formally abalienated from Israel, and no doubt their own vices and idolatry justified their exclusion.

Word Forms

• abalienates
• abalienating
• abalienated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aliene, alienate, alien, alienize, strange, unalienate.

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