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Not agreeing; alien; foreign. "All these propositions, how remote soever from reason." Locke.

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

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

The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.

South. I would gladly understand the formation of a soul, and run it up to its "punctum saliens." Collier.

The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses. And the hid treasures in her sacred tomb With sacrilege to dig. Spenser. Families raised upon the ruins of churches, and enriched with the sp…

Same as Salient.

Salience; onslaught. [Obs.] "So fierce saliaunce." Spenser.

Salience. [Obs.]

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.

Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal.

To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things; to alienate from the world.

Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything. "Wean them from themselves." Shak. The troubles of age were intended . . . to wean us gradually from our fondness of life. Swift.