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adjective

Alien adj.

Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.

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."

Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours.

noun

Alien n.

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.

One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies. "Aliens from the common wealth of Israel."

verb

Alien v. t. To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership. (R.) "It the son alien lands." "The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of... the marriage."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Alien" Quotes from Famous Books

... gave off a wondrous savor, and when the corn and beans began to sizzle, the trailers sat down to their feast in hearty content, with one of the panniers for a table, and the fir-tree for roof. "This is one of the most perfectly appointed dining-rooms in the world," exclaimed the alien. ...

— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland

... himself in the depths of reality, then a magnificent life, with the widest prospects, opens out before him. "He may win the whole of infinity for his own, and set himself free from the triviality of the merely human without losing himself in an alien world." And if he does so, he is led to place greater emphasis upon the high ideals of life than upon material progress. He learns to value the beautiful far above the merely useful; the inner life above ...

— Rudolph Eucken • Abel J. Jones

... psychic prophecy of some amazing emotional experience yet to come. The sort of face, in fact, that almost inevitably flares up into a woman's startled vision at the one crucial moment in her life when she is not supposed to be considering alien features. ...

— The Indiscreet Letter • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... very merry and talkative supper-party; for, as soon as supper was served, the servants were sent off to bed; Lord Rockminster constituted himself butler, and Percy Lestrange handed round the pheasants' eggs and asparagus and such things; so that there was no alien ear in the room. Lionel Moore, being less familiar with the house, was exempted from these duties; in truth, it was rather the women-folk who waited upon him—and petted him as he was used to be petted, wherever that fortunate ...

— Prince Fortunatus • William Black

... to try to throw a few dim sidelights on these Villagers whom I love and whom I know to be as alien to the average metropolitan consciousness and perception as though they were aboriginal representatives of interior and unexplored China. They are perhaps chiefly strange because of ...

— Greenwich Village • Anna Alice Chapin

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