"o alienate from God. John Milton. Paradise Lost line 4643."
(v) :
to convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of; to
estrange; to
withdraw affections or attention; to make
indifferent or
averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to
wean; with from
"the errors which... alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. -Macaulay."