Alienate /(āl"yen*ā̇t)/

1. Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.

   O alienate from God.

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

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

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

1. A stranger; an alien. [Obs.]