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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Alien \Al"ien\, v. t. [F. ali['e]ner, L. alienare.] To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership. [R.] ``It the son alien lands.'' --Sir M. Hale. The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . . . the marriage. --Clarendon. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Alien \Al"ien\, a. [OF. alien, L. alienus fr alius another; properly, therefore, belonging to another. See {Else}.] 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 (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to as principles alien from our religion. An alien sound of melancholy. --Wordsworth. {Alien enemy} (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours --Abbott. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Alien \Al"ien\, n. 1. A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence a stranger. See {Alienage}. 2. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as aliens from God's mercies. Aliens from the common wealth of Israel. --Ephes. ii 12. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: alien adj 1: not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature" [syn: {foreign}] 2: being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "moved to a strange country" [syn: {exotic}, {strange}] n 1: a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country [syn: {foreigner}, {noncitizen}, {outlander}] [ant: {citizen}] 2: anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found [syn: {stranger}, {unknown}] 3: a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere [syn: {extraterrestrial being}, {extraterrestrial}] v : arouse enmity or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness [syn: {estrange}, {alienate}, {disaffect}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Alien a foreigner, or person born in another country, and therefore not entitled to the rights and privileges of the country where he resides. Among the Hebrews there were two classes of aliens. (1.) Those who were strangers generally, and who owned no landed property. (2.) Strangers dwelling in another country without being naturalized (Lev. 22:10; Ps 39:12). Both of these classes were to enjoy, under certain conditions, the same rights as other citizens (Lev. 19:33, 34; Deut. 10:19). They might be naturalized and permitted to enter into the congregation of the Lord by submitting to circumcision and abandoning idolatry (Deut. 23:3-8). This term is used (Eph. 2:12) to denote persons who have no interest in Christ. From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: ALIEN, n. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
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