Word Meanings - ALIENISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• DISABILITY
  1. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like. Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted. Milton. Chatham refused to see
• LEGALITY
  1. The state or quality of being letter of the law.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• 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.
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• GENTLEWOMAN
  1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.
• LEGALIZE
  To interpret or apply in a legal spirit. (more info) 1. To make legal.
• ALIENEE
  One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor. It the alienee enters and keeps possession. Blackstone.
• CONDITIONATE
  Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.
• LEGALLY
  In a legal manner.
• ALIENATE
  Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. O alienate from God. Milton.
• GENTLE-HEARTED
  Having a kind or gentle disposition. Shak. -- Gen"tle-heart`ed*ness, n.
• GENTLEMANHOOD
  The qualities or condition of a gentleman. Thackeray.
• CONDITIONLY
  Conditionally.
• CONDITION
  A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of
• 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
• GENTLEMANLIKE; GENTLEMANLY
  Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well- behaved; courteous; polite.
• CONSTRUCTION
  The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement. Some particles . . . in certain constructions have the sense of a whole sentence contained in them. Locke. 4. The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a
• 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,
• 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.
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• ILLEGAL
  Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. Bp. Burnet.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• COUNTER-SALIENT
  Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.
• INCONDITIONAL
  Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
• UNCONDITIONAL
  Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.
• UNCONDITIONED
  Not subject to condition or limitations; infinite; absolute; hence, inconceivable; incogitable. Sir W. Hamilton. The unconditioned , all that which is inconceivable and beyond the realm of reason; whatever is inconceivable under logical forms or