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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Āl'ien-ā'tion, n.

noun

(ăl'yen-ā'shun), n. [Lat. alienatio, Fr. aliénation, Pr. alienatio, alienation. See ALIENATE.]

  1. (Law.) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another. “The power of alienation.” Hallam.
  2. The state of being alienated or transferred.
  3. A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. “Alienation of heart from the king.” Bacon.
  4. Derangement, as of the mental faculties; insanity; delirium; as, alienation of mind.

Alienation office. in Great Britain, a place to which all writs of covenants and entries were carried for the recovery of fines levied thereon. Wharton. Syn.—Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangement; aberration; mania; delirium; frenzy; dementia; monomania. See INSANITY.