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n. [ L. abalienatio: cf. F. abaliénation. ] The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. alien, L. alienus, fr. alius another; properly, therefore, belonging to another. See Else. ] 1. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aliens from the common wealth of Israel. Ephes. ii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. aliéner, L. alienare. ] To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership. [ R. ] “It the son alien lands.” Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . . . the marriage. Clarendon. [ 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; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. aliénage. ] 1. The state or legal condition of being an alien. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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 ]

2. The state of being alienated or transferred to another. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alienatus, p. p. of alienare, fr. alienus. See Alien, and cf. Aliene. ] Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. [ 1913 Webster ]

O alienate from God. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Alienated p. pr. & vb. n. Alienating. ] 1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. 1. 1 socially disoriented. we live in an age of rootless alienated people
Syn. -- anomic, disoriented [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having become indifferent or hostile to one's peers or social group.
Syn. -- estranged [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

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. One who alienates. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor. [ 1913 Webster ]

It the alienee enters and keeps possession. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage. [ 1913 Webster ]

The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The study or treatment of diseases of the mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. aliéniste. ] One who treats diseases of the mind. Ed. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. aliéneur. ] One who alienates or transfers property to another. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being a client. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cliens, -emtis, for cluens, one who hears (in relation to his protector), a client, fr. L. cluere to be named or called; akin to Gr. &unr_; to hear, Skr. çry, and E. loud: cf. F. client. See Loud. ] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dependent; one under the protection of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do think they are your friends and clients,
And fearful to disturb you. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. State of being client. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A body of clients. E. Everett. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a client. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dependent and cliental relation. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

I sat down in the cliental chair. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Supplied with clients. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The least cliented pettifiggers. R. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Clientele, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. clientela: cf. F. clientèle. ] 1. The condition or position of a client; clientship. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The clients or dependents of a nobleman of patron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The persons who make habitual use of the services of another person; one's clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a lawyer, doctor, notary, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Condition of a client; state of being under the protection of a patron. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ con- + salire to leap. ] Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coat of arms. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The act of leaping or starting asunder. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dissiliens, -entis, p. pr. of dissilire to leap asunder: dis- + salire to leap. ] Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A boiling up or over; effervescence. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ebulliens, -entis, p. pr. of ebullire to boil up, bubble up; e out, from + bullire to boil. See 1st Boil. ] Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. “Ebullient with subtlety.” De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) An external something or soothing application to allay irritation, soreness, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. emolliens, -entis, p. pr. of emollire to soften; e out + mollire to soften, mollis soft: cf. F. émollient. See Mollify. ] Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient. “Emollient applications.” Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exsiliens leaping out, p. pr. of exsilire; ex out + salire to leap. ] A leaping out. [ R. ] Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being inalienable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + alienable: cf. F. inaliénable. ] Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being inalienable; inalienability. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A kind of soup containing thin slices or shreds of carrots, onions, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. p. p. of Lie. See lain. Ps. lxviii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. lien band, bond, tie, fr. L. ligamen, fr. ligare to bind. Cf. League a union, Leam a string, Leamer, Ligament. ] (Law) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ etc. } (Law) A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed.

a. [ L. lien the spleen. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the spleen; splenic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Lienculi [ NL., dim. of L. lien the spleen. ] (Anat.) One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ l. lien the spleen + E. intestinal. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno-intestinal vein of the frog. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. lientericus, Gr. leienteriko`s: cf. F. lientérique. See Lientery. ] (Med.) Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, a lientery. -- n. (Med.) A lientery. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]