abalienate

Definitions

1. To make another's that which was once yours; to transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
   transitive
2. To estrange in feeling; to cause alienation of.
   obsolete
3. To to cause loss or perversion of intellect.
   obsolete

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Examples

“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 […]”

“[…] serves for nothing else than to abalienate the Infidels from the Christian Church.”

“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.”

“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.”

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