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Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange strands." Chaucer. One of the strange queen's lords. Shak. I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues. Ascham.

As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange. [Obs.] Shak.

The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).

One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. Specifically: --

, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. Glanvill. Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker.

State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.

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.

One who estranges.

To estrange; to withdraw. [Obs.]

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

The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.…

spect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects. The young stranger had been abstracted and silent. Blackw. Mag.

imate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.

rate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

affections of quantity." Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.

bring or receive into close connection; to ally. Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion I. Taylor.

affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

t comes after it can be of use. "After- wit comes too late when the mischief is done." L'Estrange.

proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate. A logical agitation of the matter. L'Estrange. The project now in agitation. Swift.

agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another. L'Estrange.