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e same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.

Capability of being alienated. "The alienability of the domain." Burke.

Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.

The state or legal condition of being an alien.

Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. O alienate from God. Milton.

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 to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor. It the alienee enters and keeps possession. Blackstone.

The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage. The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism. Kent.

One who treats diseases of the mind. Ed. Rev.

One who alienates or transfers property to another. Blackstone.

To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.

The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. [Obs.]

Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.

The quality or state of being inalienable.

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

The quality or state of being inalienable; inalienability.

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

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