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The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.

One who alienates.

To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate.

One who alienates or transfers property to another. Blackstone.

re long might perceive Strange alteration in me. Milton. Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations, that council degenerated into a most corrupt. Swift.

To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.

A ruling body composed of the best citizens. [Obs.] In the Senate Right not our quest in this, I will protest them To all the world, no aristocracy. B. Jonson.

See Arsenate. [R.]

The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland.

anne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate. Addison.

Be. In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee. Assembled been a senate grave and stout. Fairfax.

less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind. Now abideth faith hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. 1 Cor. xiii. 13. When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdo…

The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met. Comes Cæsar to the Capitol to-morrow Shak.

hich motors so connected are employed. The cascade system is also called tandem, or concatenated, system; the connection a cascade, tandem, or concatenated, connection, or a concatenation; and the control of the motors so obtained a tandem, or concatenation, control. In the cascade system of traction the cascade connec…

e a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.

conferred with, or who takes part in a conference; as, the conferees on the part of the Senate.

te by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty. That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been remitted rather than confimed. Swift.

ion. [U.S.] -- Legislative council, the upper house of a legislature, usually called the senate. -- Privy council. See under Privy. [Eng.]

The condition of being crenate.

A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part that is crenate; -- called also crenelle.