Definition of alien

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Alien (a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion..

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Alienor :: Alienor (n.) One who alienates or transfers property to another.
Entail :: Entail (n.) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage..
Foreign :: Foreign (a.) Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government..
Inherent :: Inherent (a.) Permanently existing in something; inseparably attached or connected; naturally pertaining to; innate; inalienable; as, polarity is an inherent quality of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty, and protection..
Triquetrous :: Triquetrous (a.) Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal..
Alien :: Alien (n.) One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies..
Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited..
Alienage :: Alienage (n.) The state or legal condition of being an alien.
Abalienation :: Abalienation (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement.
Strangled :: Stranger (v. t.) To estrange; to alienate.
Disaffect :: Disaffect (v. t.) To lack affection for; to be alienated from, or indisposed toward; to dislike..
Jubilee :: "Jubilee (n.) Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners..
Amortization :: Amortization (n.) The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain..
Lunacy :: Lunacy (n.) Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation..
Inalienableness :: Inalienableness (n.) The quality or state of being inalienable; inalienability.
Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.
Estrange :: Estrange (v. t.) To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate..
Alienate :: Alienate (v. t.) To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of..
Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States..
Devest :: Devest (v. t.) To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate..
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