v. Obs. [f. L. abaliēnt-um, pa. pple. of abaliēnā-re to estrange; f. ab off, away, + aliēnā-re to estrange; f. aliēn-us belonging to another; see ALIEN.]
1. ‘To make that another’s which was our own before. A term of the civil law not much used in common speech.’ J. (Only used as a technical equivalent of Abaliēnāre in Rom. Law.)
2. To remove; to estrange in feeling.
1554. Jn. Philpot, Exam. & Writ. (Parker Soc.), 328. No distances of places, no chance, no perversity of men, shall abalienate me from your clemency and faithfulness.
1652. Gaule, Mag-astro-mancer, 202. God may be pleased … so to abalienate, or suspend, corruptions for the present.
3. To cause loss or aberration of (intellect).
1585. Abp. Sandys, Sermons (1841), 300. The devil and his deceitful angels do so … abalienate their minds, and trouble their memory, that they cannot tell what is said.
1652. Gaule, Mag-astro-mancer, 195. Extasies of prophets did not so abalienate their mindes as that they apprehended not what they did or said.
