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n. [ F. aliénation, L. alienatio, fr. alienare, fr. alienare. See Alienate. ] 1. The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. [ 1913 Webster ]

The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangement; aberration; mania; delirium; frenzy; dementia; monomania. See Insanity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. arenatio, fr. arena sand. ] (Med.) A sand bath; application of hot sand to the body. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. catenatio. ] Connection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cenatio. ] Meal-taking; dining or supping. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. concatenatio. ] A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession. [ 1913 Webster ]

The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's will. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

A concatenation of explosions. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.) A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The condition of being crenate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) The act or process of freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as denationalization.
Syn. -- privatization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. dénationalisation. ] The act or process of denationalizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Denationalized p. pr. & vb. n. Denationalizing. ] [ Cf. F. dénationaliser. ] 1. To divest or deprive of national character or rights. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bonaparte's decree denationalizes, as he calls it, all ships that have touched at a British port. Cobbett. [ 1913 Webster ]

An expatriated, denationalized race. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to change (something, as an industry or business) from state to private ownership or control; as, the British denationalization of steel.
Syn. -- privatize, denationalise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Denization; denizening. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) The act or operation of depriving of oxygen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) Deoxidation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. effrenatio, fr. effrenare to unbridle; ex + frenum a bridle. ] Unbridled license; unruliness. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) The act of combining with hydrogen, or the state of being so combined. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. incatenatio; L. pref. in- in + catena chain. See Enchain. ] The act of linking together; enchaining. [ R. ] Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. miscere to mix + the root of genus race. ] A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white. Until the late twentieth century, misceganation was a crime in some states of the Southern United States. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. oxygénation. ] (Chem.) The act or process of combining or of treating with oxygen; oxidation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. refrenatio. See Refrain, v. t. ] The act of refraining. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Rejuvenescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. vena a vein. ] The arrangement or system of veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See Illust. in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. venatio, fr. venari, p. p. venatus, to hunt. See Venison. ] The act or art of hunting, or the state of being hunted. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]