To transfer the ownership of property to another person, or to estrange someone from something they previously had.
From Late Latin 'abalienare' combining 'ab-' (away from) and 'alienare' (to make strange or transfer). This legal term was borrowed into English during the medieval period when property transfers were formally documented.
This word is a legal grandparent to 'alienate'—it literally means to transfer something away from someone else, which is why both words share the root 'alien' (foreign, strange).
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