abalienates

Verb

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

1. (transitive, civil law) To make another's that which was once yours; to transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
   • Thereat the holy mother took grief; for, if I died before my profession, what would become of the goodly hereditaments that were to be abalienated to the monastery.1861, Anne Manning, The chronicle of Ethelfled, page 153
2. (obsolete) To estrange in feeling; to cause alienation of.
   • […] serves for nothing else than to abalienate the Infidels from the Christian Church.1698, A voyage to the East-Indies, page 43
3. (obsolete) To to cause loss or perversion of intellect.
   • 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.1841, Edwin Sandys, The sermons of Edwin Sandys, volume 4, page 300