Word Meanings - DISNATURALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. Locke.
Related words: (words related to DISNATURALIZE)
- 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 - LOCKEN
of Lock. Chaucer. - 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 - 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.