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Webster 1913 Edition
Alienation
1.
The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
2.
(Law)
A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.
3.
A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.
The
alienation
of his heart from the king. Bacon.
4.
Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity;
as,
. alienation
of mind
Syn. – Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangement; aberration; mania; delirium; frenzy; dementia; monomania. See
Insanity
. Webster 1828 Edition
Alienation
ALIENA'TION
,Noun.
1.
A transfer of title; or a legal conveyance of property to another.2.
The state of being alienated.3.
A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the heart or affections.4.
Delirium; derangement of mental faculties; insanity.Alienation-office, in Great Britain, is an office to which all writs of covenant and entry, on which fines are levied and recoveries suffered, are carried, to have fines for alienation set and paid thereon.