Also 6 astrange, -aunge, 6–7 estraunge. [ad. OF. estranger (mod.F. étranger), corresp. to Pr. estranhar, Cat. estranyar, Sp. estrañar, Pg. estranhar, It. stranare, straniare:—L. extrāneāre, f. extrāneus: see STRANGE.] To cause to be strange, or a stranger, or as a stranger (to).
1. trans. To remove (permanently or for a length of time) from an accustomed abode, haunt, association or occupation; to keep apart from experience of or acquaintance with anything. Const. from. Somewhat arch.
1485. Caxton, Paris & V. (1868), 68. He wold estrange hym fro that contree of genes.
1579. E. K., Gloss. Spenser’s Sheph. Cal., Ep. Ded. § 4. Thus much haue I aduentured vpon his frendship, himselfe being for long time furre estraunged.
1612. T. Wilson, Chr. Dict., To abstain from sig[nifieth] To seperate or estrange, and turne our mind from a thing.
1665. Glanvill, Sceps. Sci., xiv. 80. We must endeavour to estrange our assent from every thing, which is not clearly and distinctly evidenc’t to our faculties.
1713. Guardian, No. 5. 2. The … lady … has for some time estranged herself from Conversation.
1718. Rowe, trans. Lucan, II. 63/536 (R.).
| So shall my Truth to latest Times be read, | |
| And none shall ask if guiltily I fled, | |
| Or thy Command estrang’d me from thy Bed. |
1731. Pope, in Swift’s Corr., II. 648. My lord is as much estranged from politics as I am.
1841. D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1867), 59. Edward, long estranged from his native realm.
1864. Browning, Jas. Lee’s Wife, i. The world has changed! The sun’s away, And the bird estranged.
1871. B. Taylor, Faust (1875), II. II. i. 88. The room Waits for its master long estranged.
† b. To make (a person) a stranger to (a condition or place). Obs.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XIX. 697. To rest and joy Estrang’d since dear Ulysses sail’d to Troy!
1738. Thomson, Autumn, 1158. A solid Life, estrang’d To Disappointment, and fallacious Hope.
1767. H. Brooke, Fool of Qual., II. 152 (D.). Mr. Meekly had long estranged himself to Enfield.
† c. To withhold from a person’s perception or knowledge. Obs.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., X. i. (1632), 1251. The designe being so estranged from the conceit of man.
1614. Earl Stirling, Doomesday, 10th Hour (R.). Their faults are told, Which had been still estrang’d from them before.
1677. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., IV. v. 338. None of which ways are estranged from the knowledge of those experienced Spirits.
2. To render alien; to regard or treat as alien; to sever from a community; to remove (possessions, subjects) from the ownership or dominion of any one. arch.
1523. Act 14–15 Hen. VIII., c. 4 § 1. They … estraunge theimselfe from the kynges obeysaunce.
1548. Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Eph. ii. 12. You wer vtterly astraunged from the title and felowship of the nation of Jewes.
1577. Hanmer, Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619), 92. He should not estrange or cut off all the Churches of God which retained the tradition of old custome.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. (1611), 225 (J.). For conversion of infidels estranged from the house of God.
1611. Bible, Jer. xix. 4. They haue forsaken mee, and haue estranged this place, and haue burnt incense in it vnto other gods.
1872. Browning, Fifine, lviii. I say, I cannot think … such gain Can ever be estranged.
† b. To put away from oneself, eschew. Obs. rare.
1613–6. W. Browne, Brit. Past., I. v. God will be seene his sentence changing, If he behold the wicked wayes estranging.
† c. To render ‘foreign’ or dissimilar in character. Obs.
1727. Pope, etc. Art Sinking, 108. Technical terms, which estrange your style from the great and general ideas of nature.
3. To alienate in feeling or affection. Const. from, or simply.
1494. Fabyan, VII. 644. The duke of Brytayne began to estrange hym from the Kyng and refusyd to come vnto his presence.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., II. ii. (1634), 119. The wicked … which are altogether estranged from God.
1570. Act 13 Eliz., c. 2 § 1. Minding … to estrange and alienate the Minds and Hearts of sundry her Majestys Subjects from their dutiful Obedience.
1606. Holland, Sueton., 91. With IVLIA he lived at the first in great concord and mutuall love; but afterwardes hee began to estraunge himselfe.
1681. Flavel, Right Man’s Ref., 271. It is therefore his great Design, to estrange and alienate the Saints from their God.
1722. De Foe, Moll Fl. (1840), 93. I was quite estranged from him in affection.
1768. Beattie, Minstr., I. xviii. His heart from cruel sport estranged, would bleed To work the wo of any living thing.
1780. Burke, Sp. Econ. Ref., Wks. 1842, I. 253. You are going to estrange his majestys confidence from me.
1878. Gladstone, Prim. Homer, 106. To direct them towards good persons … and to estrange them from the bad.
† b. intr. for refl. To become alienated in feeling. Obs. rare.
1649. Selden, Laws Eng., II. xxvii. (1739), 126. Perswading the King, that Foreign Princes estranged from him … for some apprehensions they had of his departure from that way of Religion.
† 4. To change, render remote from one’s accustomed or normal condition; to make unlike oneself; hence, to put beside oneself, madden. Obs.
1547. J. Harrison, Exhort. Scottes, G j b. So farre did we estraunge our selfes, that wee could finde in our hartes to become seruile … to a forrein nacion.
1577. Hanmer, Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619), 86. Being mad and sodainly estranged and bereft of his wits.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, I. ii. 10. They sawe their souldiers so estranged from their former valour.
1622. Wither, Mistr. Philar. (1633), 687. That neither wasting Cares … Might from what she is estrange her.
5. To render strange or unfamiliar in appearance; to disguise. arch.
a. 1637. B. Jonson, Challenge at Tilt. Sure they are these garments that estrange me to you.
1875. [see ESTRANGING ppl. a.]
† 6. pass. To be astonished. Obs. rare. [Cf. Sp. estrañarse.]
1658. A. Fox, trans. Würtz’ Surg., III. xxi. 284. At which [prunella in throat] some Surgeons are estranged [orig. het welck sommige voor een wonder … achten], and others do slight it.
