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Word Meanings - DISNATURALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. Locke.

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  • DEPRIVEMENT
    Deprivation.
  • 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.
  • ALIENATE
    1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of. 2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with
  • LOCKER
    1. One who, or that which, locks. 2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock. Chain locker , a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. -- Davy Jones's locker, or
  • LOCKET
    1. A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament. 2. A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
  • BIRTHMARK
    Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth. Most part of this noble lineage carried upon their body for a natural birthmark, . . . a snake. Sir T. North.
  • BIRTHING
    Anything added to raise the sides of a ship. Bailey.
  • ALIENEE
    One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor. It the alienee enters and keeps possession. Blackstone.
  • BIRTHRIGHT
    Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. Lest there be any
  • ALIEN
    1. A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not posses the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage. 2. One excluded from certain privileges; one
  • LOCKEN
    of Lock. Chaucer.
  • BIRTHWORT
    A genus of herbs and shrubs , reputed to have medicinal properties.
  • 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,
  • DEPRIVER
    One who, or that which, deprives.
  • BIRTHNIGHT
    The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years. The angelic song in Bethlehem field, On thy birthnight, that sung thee Savior born. Milton.
  • BIRTHLESS
    Of mean extraction. Sir W. Scott.
  • BIRTHROOT
    An herbaceous plant , and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.
  • ALIENOR
    One who alienates or transfers property to another. Blackstone.
  • BIRTHDOM
    The land of one's birth; one's inheritance. Shak.
  • DEPRIVE
    1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
  • STILLBIRTH
    The birth of a dead fetus.
  • CHILDBIRTH
    The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
  • GLOCKENSPIEL
    An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.
  • 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.
  • UNDERLOCKER
    A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer.
  • UNALIENABLE
    Inalienable; as, unalienable rights. Swift. -- Un*al"ien*a*bly, adv.

 

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