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Suspicion of evil designs. Alienation and distrust . . . are the growth of false principles. D. Webster.

A breach of concord and its effect; alienation. Such a disunion between the two houses as might much clouClarendon.

Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation. There was a division among the people. John vii. 43.

The act of giving or bestowing; a grant. After donation there an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given. South.

The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. A long estrangement from better things. South.

In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation. Shak. Once more I will renew His lapsèd powers, though forfeite. Milton.

In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested.

Arenation.

ges of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation. Brande. Burrill. Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange lunacy. Shak.

A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.

ions, conditions, or exercise. What a mental power This eye shoots forth! Shak. Mental alienation, insanity. -- Mental arithmetic, the art or practice of solving arithmetical problems by mental processes, unassisted by written figures.

narchy. -- Universal restoration (Theol.), the final recovery of all men from sin and alienation from God to a state of happiness; universal salvation.

again, as a title; to revert to former owner; as, the title or right revels in A after alienation.

ine or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments. "A string of islands." Gibbon.

One of the ribs or nervures of the wings of insects. See Venation.