Word Meanings - FORINSECAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Foreign; alien. Bp. Burnet.

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• ALIENAGE
  1. The state or legal condition of being an alien. Note: The disabilities of alienage are removable by naturalization or by special license from the State of residence, and in some of the United States by declaration of intention of naturalization.
• FOREIGNER
  A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham.
• FOREIGNNESS
  The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.
• BURNET
  A genus of perennial herbs ; especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth , in England, a handsome moth , with crimson spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant . --
• ALIENEE
  One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor. It the alienee enters and keeps possession. Blackstone.
• ALIENATE
  Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. O alienate from God. Milton.
• ALIEN
  1. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores. 2. Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent ; incongruous; -- followed
• ALIENATION
  A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another. 3. A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon. 4. Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as,
• ALIENOR
  One who alienates or transfers property to another. Blackstone.
• ALIENIST
  One who treats diseases of the mind. Ed. Rev.
• ALIENE
  To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate.
• FOREIGN
  foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores doors, and 1. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds." Milton. 2. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born
• ALIENABILITY
  Capability of being alienated. "The alienability of the domain." Burke.
• ALIENISM
  1. The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage. The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism. Kent. 2. The study or treatment of diseases of the mind.
• FOREIGNISM
  Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.
• BURNETTIZE
  To subject to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.
• ALIENABLE
  Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.
• ALIENATOR
  One who alienates.
• SALIENT
  Projectiong outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reëntering. See Illust. of Bastion. (more info) 1. Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals." Sir T. Browne. 2. Shooting out up; springing;
• INALIENABLY
  In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested.
• INALIENABLE
  Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright.
• SUPERSALIENCY
  The act of leaping on anything. Sir T. Browne.
• COUNTER-SALIENT
  Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.
• INALIENABILITY
  The quality or state of being inalienable.
• UNALIENABLE
  Inalienable; as, unalienable rights. Swift. -- Un*al"ien*a*bly, adv.
• ABALIENATION
  The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement.
• SALIENCY
  Quality of being salient; hence, vigor. "A fatal lack of poetic saliency." J. Morley.
• ABALIENATE
  To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate. 2. To estrange; to withdraw. 3. To cause alienation of . Sandys.
• VERGALIEN; VERGALOO
  See VIRGALIEU