alienate

From Middle English alienat, from Latin aliēnātus, perfect passive participle of aliēnō (“alienate, estrange”), from aliēnus. See alien, and confer aliene.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/

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alienate (not comparable)

1. (archaic, followed by "from") Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, line 4643:

     O alienate from God.

alienate (plural alienates)

1. (obsolete) A stranger; an alien.

alienate (third-person singular simple present alienates, present participle alienating, simple past and past participle alienated)

1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
2. To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     The errors which […] alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart.

   • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, OCLC 2619891:

     The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present.

   • 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:

     The Communists had considerable influence in the Labour Party in the years 1920–26 and 1935–9. Their chief importance, and that of the whole left wing of the Labour movement, was the part they played in alienating the middle classes from Socialism.

3. To cause one to feel unable to relate.

Alienate is largely synonymous with estrange. However, alienate is used primarily to refer to driving off (“he alienated her with his atrocious behavior”) or to offend a group (“the imprudent remarks alienated the urban demographic”), while estrange is used rather to mean “cut off relations”, particularly in a family setting.

• (estrange): estrange, antagonize, isolate, marginalize

• (estrange): accept

• alienate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

alienate f pl

1. feminine plural of alienato

alienate f pl

1. feminine plural of alienato

alienate f

1. plural of alienata

alienate

1. inflection of alienare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

• aleniate, aneliate

aliēnāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of aliēnō

alienate

1. Alternative form of alienat