Definition: alien

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

alien
     adj 1: not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of
            something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of
            capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French
            mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"
            [syn: foreign]
     2: being or from or characteristic of another place or part of
        the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a
        greenhouse"; "moved to a strange country" [syn: exotic,
        strange]
     n 1: a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does
          not owe allegiance to your country [syn: foreigner, noncitizen,
           outlander] [ant: citizen]
     2: anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they
        are found [syn: stranger, unknown]
     3: a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its
        atmosphere [syn: extraterrestrial being, extraterrestrial]
     v : arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly
         been love, affection, or friendliness [syn: estrange, alienate,
          disaffect]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Alien \Al"ien\, v. t. [F. ali['e]ner, L. alienare.]
   To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or
   ownership. [R.] ``It the son alien lands.'' --Sir M. Hale.

         The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . .
         . the marriage.                          --Clarendon.

Alien \Al"ien\, a. [OF. alien, L. alienus, fr. alius another;
   properly, therefore, belonging to another. See Else.]
   1. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or
      to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien
      subjects, enemies, property, shores.

   2. Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent
      (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by
      to; as, principles alien from our religion.

            An alien sound of melancholy.         --Wordsworth.

   Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government
      at war with ours. --Abbott.

Alien \Al"ien\, n.
   1. A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to
      another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in
      which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen.
      Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.

   2. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or
      estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.

            Aliens from the common wealth of Israel. --Ephes.
                                                  ii. 12.

ALIEN, n.  An American sovereign in his probationary state.

Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

Alien
   a foreigner, or person born in another country, and therefore
   not entitled to the rights and privileges of the country where
   he resides. Among the Hebrews there were two classes of aliens.
   
     (1.) Those who were strangers generally, and who owned no
   landed property.
   
     (2.) Strangers dwelling in another country without being
   naturalized (Lev. 22:10; Ps. 39:12).
   
     Both of these classes were to enjoy, under certain conditions,
   the same rights as other citizens (Lev. 19:33, 34; Deut. 10:19).
   They might be naturalized and permitted to enter into the
   congregation of the Lord by submitting to circumcision and
   abandoning idolatry (Deut. 23:3-8).
   
     This term is used (Eph. 2:12) to denote persons who have no
   interest in Christ.