A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1563-1596, 1692
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Alienat, p.p. [ME. alyenate (1430), e.m.E. alienate, ad. L. aliēnātus.] Alienated, estranged. —1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 34 (freindis alienat from thame). 1596 Dalr. I. 68/12 (nathing alienat or discordeng with the truth); 149/5 (hartes frome him alienat and changet). 1692 Acts Sederunt 7.
The . .law of death-bed, securing mens inheritances from being alienat at that time
