Obs. Also 5 alyenate, 6 alyenat, 6–7 alienat. [ad. L. aliēnāt-us pa. pple. of aliēnā-re: see ALIEN v.]
A. ppl. adj.
1. Estranged, withdrawn or turned away in feeling or affection.
1430. Lydg., Chron. Troy, II. xii. Fer from hym selfe, he was so alyenate.
1582–8. Hist. James VI. (1804), 17. The heartis of people are alienate from the lawfull prince.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, II. 431. And as all alienate resolved hearts doe, they served themselves … with impudent excuses.
1742. Swift, Misc., VII. 129–30 (J.). They [Whigs] are … wholly alienate from Truth, Law, Religion, Mercy, Conscience, or Honour.
1814. Cary, Dante, Purg., XIX. 113. I was a soul in misery, alienate From God.
2. Foreign in nature or character, alien.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physic, 21/1. When as the woman is gravid with any alienat excrescence.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, iii. 57. They are … vnwholsome, and alienate from the taste of wholsome meates.
1660. T. Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 296/1. Nothing was more alienate from the comprehension of Sciences, than Poetry.
3. Used as pple. of ALIEN v.
1513. Bradshaw, St. Werburge, 204. Some other … diuers libertes haue alienate.
1538. Starkey, England, 151. Prouysyon made that nothyng schold be alyenat to the fraud of the law.
4. Bot. = ALIENATED 4.
1839. Hooper, Med. Dict.
B. sb. An alien, stranger.
1552. Latimer, Lord’s Prayer, v. II. 68. And keep us from invasions of alienates and strangers.
1566. Stapleton, Ret. Untr. Jewel, iv. 157. Whosoeuer eateth the lambe without this house, he is an alienat.
