A Dictionary of the English Language/abalienate

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483244A Dictionary of the English Language — abalienateSamuel Johnson (1709–1784)


To Aba’lienate. v . a. [from abalieno, Lat.] To make that another's which was our own before. A term of the civil law, not much used in common speech.