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To Alie'n, v. a. [aliener , Fr. alieno, Lat.] To make any 
thing the property of another. To edrange; to turn the 
mind or affeftion ; to make averfe : with from. —The king 
was difquieted, when lie found that the prince was totally 
aliened from all thoughts of marriage. Clarendon. 
A'LIENABLE, adj. That of which the property may 
be transferred.—Land is alienable , and treafure is tranfi- 
topy, and both mud pafs from him, by his own voluntary 
aft, or by the violence of others, or at leaft by fate. Dennis. 
To A'LIENATE, v. a. [aliener, ¥r. alieno, Lat.] To 
transfer the property of any thing to another.—The coun¬ 
tries of the Turks were once Chridian, and members of 
the church, and where the golden candledicks did Hand, 
though now they be utterly alienated, and no Chridians 
left. Bacon. —To withdraw the heart or alfeftions : with 
the particl a from, where the fil'd poffeffor is mentioned.— 
The manner of men’s writing mull; not alienate our hearts 
from the truth. Hooker. 
Alienate, adj. [ alienatvs , Lat.] Withdrawn from; 
flranger to: with the particle from. —The whig's are dam¬ 
nably wicked; impatient for the death of the queen; rea¬ 
dy to gratify their ambition and revenge by all defperate 
methods; wholly alienate from truth, law, religion, mercy, 
Confidence, or honour. Swift. 
ALIEN A'TION,/. [alicnatio, Lat.] The date of being 
alienated; as, The date was walled during its alienation. 
Change of affeftion. Applied to the mind, it means dif- 
©rder of the faculties.—Some things are done by man, 
though not through outward force and impulfion, though 
not againd, yet without, their wills: as in alienation of 
mind, or any like inevitable utter abfence of wit and judg¬ 
ment. Hooker. * 
Alienation, inlaw, is a transferring the property of 
any thing from one man to another. It chiefly relates to 
lands and tenements; as to aliene land in fee, is to fell the 
fee-fimple thereof; to aliene in mortmain, is to make over 
lands or tenements to a charitable ufe. All perfons who 
have aright to lands may, generally, aliene them toothers. 
But fome alienations are prohibited ; as alienation by te¬ 
nant for life, tenant for years, tenant in dower: if thefe 
aliene for a greater edate than they have in the lands, it is 
a forfeiture of their edate. 1 Injl. 251. Conditions in 
deeds that the purchafier fhall not aliene, are void. But 
©ne may grant an edate in fee, on condition that the gran¬ 
tee fhall not aliene to a particular perfon. Alfio edates in 
tail', for life, or years, where the whole intered is not part¬ 
ed with-, may be made with condition not to aliene to 
others, for prefervation of the reverlion. Lit. 361. By 
the 12th Car. II. c. 24. all fines for alienation are taken 
away, except fines due by the cudoms of particular manors. 
A lienA:TI on-office, is an office to which all writs of 
covenants and entry, upon which fines are levied, and re¬ 
coveries differed, are carried, to have fines for alienation 
fet and paid thereon. 
ALIENI'LOQU Y,f. [alieniloquium, of alienus, foreign, 
and loquor, Lat. to fpeak.] A talking wide from the pur- 
pofe, or not to the matter in hand. 
ALI'FEROUS, adj. [alifcr, Lat. of ala, a wing, and 
fero, to bear. J. Bearing or having wings. 
ALl'GEROUS, adj. [aliger, Lat. of ala, awing, and 
gero, to carry.] Bearing, carrying, or having, wings. 
To ALI'GGE,jfi [from a, and "tig, to lie down.} To lay; 
to allay ; to throw down; to fubdue. An old word even 
in the time of Spencer, now wholly forgotten. 
To AI.I'GHT, 0.72. [aliktan, Sax. af-lickten, Du.]; To 
come down, and flop. The word implies the idea of de¬ 
fending ; as, of a bird from the wing; a traveller from 
his horfe or carriage; and generally of reding or dopping. 
It is ufed alfo of any thing thrown or. falling; to fall upon: 
But dorms of dones from the proud temple’s height 
Pour down, and on our batter’d helms alight. Dryden. 
ALI'KE, adv. [from a and like.] With refemblance ; 
without difference ; in the fame manner; in the fame form, 
3 a fome expreffions it has the appearance of an adjeftive, 
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but is always an adverb.—The darknefs hideth not from 
thee; but the night ffiineth as the day ; the darknefs and 
the light are both alike to thee. Pfalm, cxxxix. 12. 
Riches cannot refeue from the grave, 
Which claims alike the monarch and the have. Dryden. 
A'LIMA,y. [of a, andGr. hunger.] Medicines 
which either prevent or atfuage hunger. 
A'LIMENT, f. [ alimentum,'L , oX.~\ Nouriffiment; that 
which nouriffies; nutriment; food_All bodies which, 
by the animal faculties, can be changed into the fluids and 
folids of our bodies, are called aliments. In the larged 
fenfe, by aliment, I underhand every thing which a human 
creature takes in common diet; as meat, drink ; and fea- 
foning, as fait, fpice, vinegar. Arbuthnot. 
By the procefs of digedion is prepared a very mild,, 
fweet, and whitiffi, liquor, refiembling milk, and diftin- 
guiffied by the name of chyle ; which being abforbed by the 
•lafteal veins, by them conveyed into the circulation, and 
there affimilated into the nature of blood, affords that Rip¬ 
ply of nutrition, which the continual wade of the body is 
found to require. Next to air, food is the mod neceffary 
thing for the prefervation of our bodies: and, as on the 
choice thereof our health greatly depends, it is of great 
importance to underdand, in general, what is the proper- 
ed for our nouriffiment; and, in particular deviations from 
health, what is the bed adapted to redore 11s. Our blood 
and juices naturally incline to become putrid and acrimo¬ 
nious : freffi chyle, duly received, prevents this dedruc- 
tive tendency, and preferves in them that mild date which 
alone confids with health. An animal diet affords the mofit 
of this bland nutritious mucilage; watery fluids dilute the 
too grofs parts, and carry off what is become unfit for ufe. 
It is only the fmall portion of jelly" which is feparated 
from the farinaceous parts of vegetables, that, after being 
much elaborated, is converted into the animal nature; yet 
the ufe of vegetables prevents both repletion and a too 
great tendency to a putrefeent acrimony of the blood. In 
hot climates, as well as againd the conditutional heat of 
particular perfons, vegetables.are demanded in the larged 
portion; animal fubdances afford the highed reliffi while 
our appetite continues; but will fate the appetite before 
the domach is duly filled. Vegetables may be eaten after 
either flefli or fiffi : few herbs or fruits fatiate fo much as 
that the domach may not be filled with them, when it is 
already fatisfied with flefli or fiffi; whence it may be ob- 
ferved, that no diet which is very nouriffiing can be eaten to 
fulnefs, becaufe its nutritious parts are oily and fatiating. 
Health depends almod wholly on a proper crafis of the 
blood; and, to preferve this, a mixture of vegetables in 
fome degree is always required, for a loathing is foon the 
confequence of animal food alone: hot acrid habits, too, 
receive from milk and vegetables the needful for cor-reft- 
ing their exceffes; but in cold, pituitous, and nervous, 
habits, who want mod nouriffiment from lead digedion, 
and from the fmalled quantity of food, animal diet is to 
be ufed more freely. 
Thus much being obvious with refpeft to the matter, 
and quality of our aliment, the valetudinarian may eafily 
regulate his diet with fome advantage to himfelf by an at¬ 
tention to the few enfuing particulars. In winter, eat 
freely, but drink fparingly: road meat is to be preferred,, 
and what is drunk ffiould be dronger than at other feafons. 
In fummer, let third determine the quantity to be drunk; 
cold domachs never require much : boiled meats and ve¬ 
getables, if not othenvife contradifted, may now be more 
freely ufed. Lax habits require the winter’s diet to be 
continued all the year, and rigid ones ffiould be confined 
to that of fummer. Fat people ffiould fad at- times,, but 
the lean ffiould never do fo. Thofe who are troubled with 
eruftations occafioned by their food ffiould drink but little, 
and ufe fome unaccudomed exercife. The tbirdy fihould 
drink freely, but eat fparingly. In general, let modera¬ 
tion be obferved; and, though no dinner hath been had, 
a light flipper is at all times to be preferred. After very 
