v. t. [ L. abalienatus, p. p. of abalienare; ab + alienus foreign, alien. See Alien. ]
n. [ L. abalienatio: cf. F. abaliénation. ] The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Formed fr. L. adesse to be present; ad + esse to be. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. ad- + renal. ] (Anat.) Suprarenal. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
a. Named before. Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Capability of being alienated. “The alienability of the domain.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. aliénable. ] Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another;
n. [ Cf. OF. aliénage. ]
☞ The disabilities of alienage are removable by naturalization or by special license from the State of residence, and in some of the United States by declaration of intention of naturalization. Kent. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Estates forfeitable on account of alienage. Story. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. alienatus, p. p. of alienare, fr. alienus. See Alien, and cf. Aliene. ] Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with
O alienate from God. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A stranger; an alien. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
n. [ F. aliénation, L. alienatio, fr. alienare, fr. alienare. See Alienate. ]
The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who alienates. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. [ All + anerly singly, fr. ane one. ] Solely; only. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F. amener to lead; &unr_; (L. ad) = mener to lead, fr. L. minare to drive animals (properly by threatening cries), in LL. to lead; L. minari, to threaten, minae threats. See Menace. ]
Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an amenable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ OF. amesnagier. See Manage. ] To manage. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. See Amenable. ] Behavior; bearing. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; on both ends + &unr_; to go. ]
☞ The Gordius aquaticus, or hairworm, has been called an
n.
a. Before birth. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr.
n. See Appanage. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. apurtenaunce, apartenance, F. appartenance, LL. appartenentia, from L. appertinere. See Appertain. ] That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]
Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance. [ 1913 Webster ]
Mysterious appurtenants and symbols of redemption. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F. appartenant, p. pr. of appartenir. See Appurtenance. ] Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident;
Common appurtenant. (Law)
n.;
a. [ L. arenaceus, fr. arena sand. ] Sandy or consisting largely of sand; of the nature of sand; easily disintegrating into sand; friable;
a. [ L. arenarius, fr. arena sand. ] Sandy;
n. [ L. arenatio, fr. arena sand. ] (Med.) A sand bath; application of hot sand to the body. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Consisting of, or containing, clay and sand, as a soil. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Sp. & F. arsenal arsenal, dockyard, or It. arzanale, arsenale (cf. It. & darsena dock); all fr. Ar. dārçinā'a house of industry or fabrication; dār house + çinā'a art, industry. ] A public establishment for the storage, or for the manufacture and storage, of arms and all military equipments, whether for land or naval service. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Chem.) A salt of arsenic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ L. ] (Bot.) A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. avenaceus, fr. avena oats. ] Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. avenage, fr. L. avena oats. ] (Old Law) A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent. Jacob. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. avena eats. ] (Chem.) A crystalline globulin, contained in oat kernels, very similar in composition to excelsin, but different in reactions and crystalline form. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. type genus of the Balaenidae: Greenland whales.
v. t.
a. [ Pref. bi- + centenary. ] Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years;
a. [ Pref. bi- + crenate. ] (Bot.) Twice crenated, as in the case of leaves whose crenatures are themselves crenate. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a span of 2000 years.