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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

... of Venus reared its stately form in the north, and a Sanctuary to Jupiter covered, in the east, the site of the former Temple. Heathen colonists were introduced, and the Jew, who was to become in future centuries an alien everywhere, was made by Hadrian an alien in his fatherland. For the Roman Emperor denied to Jews the right of entry into Jerusalem. Thus Hadrian completed the work of Titus, and Judaism was divorced from its local habitation. More ...

— Judaism • Israel Abrahams

... The feathered warrior claimed its wooded swells, Still on its slopes the ploughman's ridges show The pointed flints that left his fatal bow, Chipped with rough art and slow barbarian toil,— Last of his wrecks that strews the alien soil! Here spread the fields that heaped their ripened store Till the brown arms of Labor held no more; The scythe's broad meadow with its dusky blush; The sickle's harvest with its velvet flush; The green-haired maize, her silken tresses laid, In soft luxuriance, on her harsh brocade; ...

— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... when her time came, she would be an alien in death, as she was in life; that never for her would these costly tokens of respect be gathered. Yet, instead of this thought humbling her, instead of it teaching her the lesson that only by striving to do her duty in the lowly course set for her could she ...

— The White Riband - A Young Female's Folly • Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse

... only at my birth— When the long hours of that mysterious night Were over, and the morning was in sight— I cried, but in strange places, steppe and firth I have not seen, through alien grief and mirth; And never shall one room contain me quite Who in so many rooms first saw the light, Child of all mothers, ...

— Renascence and Other Poems • Edna St. Vincent Millay

... was an alien in his own land, loathed and oppressed by the Turk. In his turn he robbed and slew as chance offered. He pursued the chase for the pelt, and went after human life as our more ...

— The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad • Edward John Thompson

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