what is abalienate

abalienate

From Latin abalienatus, past participle of abalienare it is to remove, from  literally ,to make alien, from alienare .
 Related: Abalienated; abalienating.
Verb

( plural third-person singular simple present abalienates, present participle abalienating, simple past and past participle abalienated)

    (according to civil law) To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
    1883, A commentary on the Greek text of the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians, page 165:

        National distinction did not, indeed, exist in patriarchal times, but by the formation of the theocracy the other races of men were formally abalienated from Israel, and no doubt their own vices and idolatry justified their exclusion.

    , Edwin Sandys, in The sermons of Edwin Sandys (1841), part 4, page 300:

        The devil and his deceitful angels do so bewitch them, and fill their hearts with vain cogitations, so abalienate their minds, and trouble their memory, that they cannot tell what is said: it is forgotten by that it is spoken.

third-person singular (plural third-person singulars)  The form of a verb used (in English and other languages) with singular nouns and with the pronouns he, she, it and one (or their equivalents in other languages). "Is" is the third-person singular of to be .