KJV Dictionary - alienate
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ALIENATE
A'LIENATE, v.t. L. alieno.
1. To transfer title, property or right to another; as, to alienate lands, or sovereignty.
2. To estrange; to withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; with from; as, to alienate the heart or affections; to alienate a man from the friends of his youth.
3. To apply to a wrong use.
They shall not alienate the first fruits of the land.
Ezek. 48.
A'LIENATE, a. L. alienatus.
Estranged; withdrawn from; stranger to; with from.
O alienate from God, O spirit accurst.
The whigs were alienate from truth.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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