Word Finder - alien

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Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.

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A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.

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A foreigner residing in a country.

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One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.

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To estrange; to alienate.

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To transfer the ownership of something.

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Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.

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alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores

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Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.

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principles alien to our religion

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Pertaining to extraterrestrial life.

His face looked pale and he rode with an alien stiffness.

It seems so alien to his nature.

On the 5th of March 1440-1441, the king endowed the college out of alien priories with some scpc, a year, almost exactly the amount of the original endowment of Winchester.

The deaf child who has only the sign language of De l'Epee is an intellectual Philip Nolan, an alien from all races, and his thoughts are not the thoughts of an Englishman, or a Frenchman, or a Spaniard.

At this period they controlled more of the foreign and colonial trade than all the other alien merchants in London put together.

The alien element is small, consisting chiefly of Austro-Hungarians, gipsies, Italians and Jews.

She was expecting some sort of alien monster to inhabit the brutal planet.

Not so with the national customs. There are features - the wooden house, the oven, the bath - which the Russian never abandons, even when swamped in an alien population.

One may ask why certain alien plants prove so invasive.

If the couple divorces, however, then the alien spouse's status must be determined.

If an alien (non-US citizen or permanent resident) marries a US citizen or permanent resident, that person is usually given an immigrant benefit.

U-1 possesses the last gitaroo that the Gravillians, an evil alien race, need to secure the top spot in the universe.

Due to the spreading of an alien virus, the human survivors are becoming infected and turning into vicious monsters.

The native dynasty has been strengthened rather than weakened, and Tunisia may be pointed out as the best and wisest example of French administration over an alien land and race.

In their poetry above everything the Japanese have remained impervious to alien influences.

But, notwithstanding the attempt to introduce an alien element into the Roman language, which proved incompatible with its natural genius, and his own failure to attain the idiomatic purity of Naevius, Plautus or Terence, the fragments of his dramas are sufficient to prove the service which he rendered to the formation of the literary language of Rome as well as to the culture and character of his contemporaries.

Alien ships were in a big group formation above you.

Plehve carried out the "russification" of the alien provinces within the Russian Empire, and earned bitter hatred in Poland, in Lithuania and especially in Finland.

Throughout its history, therefore, "dialectic" has been connected with that which is remote from, or alien to, unsystematic thought, with the a priori, or transcendental, rather than with the facts of common experience and material things.

There is no indication of an abrupt change from the use of stone to the use of metal such as might have occurred had the knowledge of copper and bronze, and the methods of working them, been introduced through the conquest of the original inhabitants by an alien race of superior culture and civilization.

The fashionable accomplishments of the day, and the new Greek culture, were wholly alien to his taste.

Nothing was more alien to his mental temperament than the spinning of hypotheses.

Kiera could be the most stubborn and frustrating woman Evelyn had ever met, and she'd sworn off any man, let alone an alien.

The insertion of the alien matter 7-12 between 1-5 and 13-17 may be due to our author's wish to show that the expulsion of Satan from heaven after Christ's birth and ascension to heaven was owing in some measure to Christ, although he has allowed Michael's name to remain in the borrowed passage, 7-12 - a fact which shows how dependent the writer was on tradition.

The legislature of New Jersey passed a special law, enabling him, as an alien, to own real property, and it is said to have been in reference to this that the state received its nickname "Spain."

In coming, as at a certain point in its development it does, to the consciousness of an object, the mind does not find itself in the presence of an opponent, or of anything essentially alien to itself but of that which gives content and stability to its own existence.

It meant the excision of an alien element which fed like a cancer on the body politic; it meant the recovery, at comparatively little cost, of the command of the principal rivers of Poland, the Vistula and the Niemen; it meant the obtaining of a seaboard with the corollaries of sea-power and world-wide commerce.

In1798-1799the legislature passed the famous Kentucky Resolutions in protest against the alien and sedition acts.

For several years the Anti-Federalists or Republicans had contended that the administration at Washington had been exercising powers not warranted by the constitution, and when Congress had passed the alien and sedition laws the leaders of that party seized upon the event as a proper occasion for a spirited public protest which took shape principally in resolutions passed by the legislatures of Kentucky and Virginia.

Not the least important of these influences is the sentimental sympathy felt for those who are supposed to be deprived of the use of their mother-tongue, and who are subjected to the hardship of learning an alien one.

Some years previously he had expressed his conviction that "one of the chief needs of the age was to make inroad after the alien, to bring in the votaries of fashion, of literature, of sentiment, of policy and of rank, who are content in their several idolatries to do without piety to God and love to Him whom He hath sent"; and, with an abruptness which must have produced on him at first an effect almost astounding, he now had the satisfaction of beholding these various votaries thronging to hear from his lips the words of wisdom which would deliver them from their several idolatries and remodel their lives according to the fashion of apostolic times.

Kalakaua considered residents of European or American descent as alien invaders, and he aimed to restore largely the ancient system of personal government, under which he should have control of the public treasury.

In his earliest pamphlets (1774-1775) he started out with the ordinary pre-Revolutionary Whig doctrines of natural rights and liberty; but the first experience of semi-anarchic states'-rights and individualism ended his fervour for ideas so essentially alien to his practical, logical mind, and they have no place in his later writings.

To this obsession he sacri 1 He warmly supported the Alien and Sedition Laws of 1798 (in their final form).

The movie had a very nice homage to "Alien" in a scene with Phyllis Diller.

However could alien abduction simply be a symptom of a deluded mind?

They could assume a framework of widely agreed absolutes and standards which are alien to so many now.

I thought India was going to be an illegal alien.

The concept of handing their cash into a bank or building society in exchange for a slip of paper may seem alien to them.

Let's get ready to kick some alien butt!

The greatest ecological catastrophes have occurred through the introduction of alien species.

He believes the alien interlopers can never have a soul of their own.

Meanwhile the President of the United States has to contend with a possible alien invasion.

It was also found that the justice offered by the state courts was not as alien or inappropriate as commonly supposed.

It is claimed that she was abducted and raped by an alien wearing a loose fitting metallic green tunic.

The case for man-made UFOs is stronger than ever whereas the evidence for ' alien flying saucers ' is wholly untenable.

He walks over to a table and carefully unwraps the small body of the alien baby we saw delivered in the teaser.

B ut we must be ever watchful for the alien hiding in our midst.

In these further provinces of Iran the Macedonian invader had for the first time to encounter a serious national opposition, for in the west the Iranian rule had been merely the supremacy of an alien power over native populations indifferent or hostile.

Meanwhile he had published his collected Gedichte (1809) and two series of lectures, Ober die neuere Geschichte (181 I) and Geschichte der alien and neuen Literatur (1815).