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Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger. On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste. Milton.

To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of. Go on both in hand, O nations, never be disunited, be the praise . . . of all posterity! Milton.

To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn. To sell, empawn, and alienate the estates. Milman.

To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate. They . . . have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods. Jer. xix. 4.

Remote in affection or obedience; at a distance, morally or spiritually; t enmity with; alienated. They that are far from thee ahsll perish. Ps. lxxiii. 27.

Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.

from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life. Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits. Shak.…

hing which is not God; the worship of false gods. His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah. Milton.

Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright.

ary forms and ceremonies. The prior, when inducted into that dignity, took an oath not to alienate any of their lands. Bp. Burnet.

To prevent from being reconciled; to alienate or disaffect. [Obs.]

at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners. [In this sense spelled also, in some English Bibles, jubile.] Lev. xxv. 8-17.

Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.

To alienate; to transfer; to make over. [Obs.] Waller. -- To make believe, to pretend; to feign; to simulate. -- To make bold, to take the liberty; to venture. -- To make the cards (Card Playing), to shuffle the pack. -- To make choice of, to take by way of preference; to choose. -- To make danger, to make experim…

Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.

Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated.

corresponding Anglo-Saxon and Norman words. Forgive points to inward feeling, and suppose alienated affection; when we ask forgiveness, we primarily seek the removal of anger. Pardon looks more to outward things or consequences, and is often applied to trifling matters, as when we beg pardon for interrupting a man, or…

ly; esp. (Theol.), the act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified, or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to, a supreme love to God; also, the state of being thus purified or sanctified. God hath from the baginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of…

To alienate; to estrange. [Obs.]

To estrange; to alienate. [Obs.] Shak.