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Abalienate

//æbˈeɪl.jəˌneɪt// verb

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Verb

1
To make another's that which was once yours; to transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate. transitive
"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."
2
To estrange in feeling; to cause alienation of. obsolete
"[…] serves for nothing else than to abalienate the Infidels from the Christian Church."
3
To to cause loss or perversion of intellect. obsolete
"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."

Etymology

From Latin abaliēnātus, perfect passive participle of abaliēnō (“alienate; remove”); from ab- (“by, from; away”) + aliēnō (“alienate, estrange”); from aliēnus (“foreign, alien”), from alius (“other, another”). Equivalent to ab- + alienate.

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