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Definition of Alienism

1. Noun. An obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness.

Definition of Alienism

1. n. The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.

Definition of Alienism

1. Noun. The fact or position of being an alien; alienage. ¹

2. Noun. (archaic) The study or treatment of mental disorders; psychiatry. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Alienism

1. alienage [n -S] - See also: alienage

Medical Definition of Alienism

1. 1. The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage. "The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism." (Kent) 2. The study or treatment of diseases of the mind. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alienism

Literary usage of Alienism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Speeches and Occasional Addresses by John Adams Dix (1864)
"OPINION ON TWO QUESTIONS OF alienism. The question of alienism is one of great interest in the United States by reason of the flood of immigration and the ..."

2. The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, During His Residence of Four Years in by Aaron Burr (1838)
"Nothing further has been done in the question of alienism, nor is it now material that anything should be done. The mailcoach will take me this night to ..."

3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"38), which provides that no person capable of inheriting shall be precluded by reason of the alienism of any ancestor of such person not applying, ..."

4. Outlines of Rhetoric: Embodied in Rules, Illustrative Examples, and a by John Franklin Genung (1898)
"Incog., abbreviation of incognito, an alienism, used considerably by ... In Mo, alienism for wholly, entirely, and not needed in ordinary English. ..."

5. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of by William Johnson, Lorenzo B. Shepard, New York (State). Supreme Court, New York (State). Court for the Trial of Impeachments and the Correction of Errors (1849)
"The court cannot avoid taking notice of the alienism of an heir, if the same be shown ... The alienism of a demandant may be pleaded. (Calvin's Case, 7 Co. ..."

6. A Treatise on the American Law of Administration by John Gabriel Woerner (1899)
"In some cases, however, descent between cousins and more remote kindred is held to be mediate, and the alienism of an intermediate ancestor to impede the ..."

7. Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court (1852)
"... of alienism, shall be deemed and adjudged valid and effectual, to vest all and singular the lands and tenements described in and intended to be conveyed ..."

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