Pronunciations (2)
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/æbˈeɪl.jəˌneɪt/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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/æbˈeɪ.li.əˌneɪt/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Verb
To make another's that which was once yours; to transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
Usage- Transitive
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Thereat the holy mother took grief; for, if I died before my profession, what would become of the goodly hereditaments that were to be abalienated to the monastery.
In addition, compelling to sell was not necessary either, because the foreigner, led by economic logic and his own interests, would try hard to abalienate the objects and means of work which are not used in production or in some other type of […]
To estrange in feeling; to cause alienation of.
Usage- Obsolete
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[…] serves for nothing else than to abalienate the Infidels from the Christian Church.
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National distinction did not, indeed, exist in patriarchal times, but by the formation of the theocracy the other races of men were formally abalienated from Israel, and no doubt their own vices and idolatry justified their exclusion.
To to cause loss or perversion of intellect.
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The devil and his deceitful angels do so bewitch them, and fill their hearts with vain cogitations, so abalienate their minds, and trouble their memory, that they cannot tell what is said: it is forgotten by that it is spoken.