Word Meanings - FORINSECAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Foreign; alien. Bp. Burnet.
Related words: (words related to FORINSECAL)
- ALIENAGE
1. The state or legal condition of being an alien. Note: The disabilities of alienage are removable by naturalization or by special license from the State of residence, and in some of the United States by declaration of intention of naturalization. - FOREIGNER
A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. - FOREIGNNESS
The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot. - BURNET
A genus of perennial herbs ; especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth , in England, a handsome moth , with crimson spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant . -- - ALIENEE
One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor. It the alienee enters and keeps possession. Blackstone. - ALIENATE
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. O alienate from God. Milton. - ALIEN
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 ; incongruous; -- followed - ALIENATION
A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another. 3. A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon. 4. Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, - ALIENOR
One who alienates or transfers property to another. Blackstone. - ALIENIST
One who treats diseases of the mind. Ed. Rev. - ALIENE
To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate. - FOREIGN
foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores doors, and 1. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds." Milton. 2. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born - ALIENABILITY
Capability of being alienated. "The alienability of the domain." Burke. - ALIENISM
1. The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage. The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism. Kent. 2. The study or treatment of diseases of the mind. - FOREIGNISM
Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall. - BURNETTIZE
To subject to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett. - ALIENABLE
Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state. - ALIENATOR
One who alienates. - INALIENABLY
In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested. - SALIENT
Projectiong outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reëntering. See Illust. of Bastion. (more info) 1. Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals." Sir T. Browne. 2. Shooting out up; springing; - INALIENABLE
Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright. - SUPERSALIENCY
The act of leaping on anything. Sir T. Browne. - COUNTER-SALIENT
Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms. - INALIENABILITY
The quality or state of being inalienable. - UNALIENABLE
Inalienable; as, unalienable rights. Swift. -- Un*al"ien*a*bly, adv. - ABALIENATION
The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. - SALIENCY
Quality of being salient; hence, vigor. "A fatal lack of poetic saliency." J. Morley. - ABALIENATE
To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate. 2. To estrange; to withdraw. 3. To cause alienation of . Sandys. - VERGALIEN; VERGALOO
See VIRGALIEU