estoufade (estofad)

[ See ( b ), above. 2013 In truth, there could hardly be found a more efficient device for estranging men each other, and decreasing their fellow-feeling, than this system of state-almsgiving. H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 351. 3. To keep at a distance; withdraw; with hold: generally used reflexively. Had we... estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent, who seeth not how greatly prejudicial this might have been to so good a cause? Hooker, Eccles. Polity. I thus estrange my person from her bed. Dryden. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. Glanville , Scep. Sci. 4t. To cause to appear strange or foreign. Sure they are these garments that estrange me to you. B. Jonson, Challenge at Tilt. estrangedne (es-tran'jed-nes), n. The state of being estranged. Disdaining to eat with one being the greatest token of est ran genes Prynne, Vild of Four Questions (1645), P Prynne, Vind. of Four Questions (1645), p. 2. estrangefult (es-tranj'fül), a. [ Over these they drew greaves or buskins, embroidered with gold and interlaced with rows of feathers; altogether enstrangeful and Indian-like. [and Lincoln's Inn. Beaumont ( and others ), Mask of the Middle Temple estrangement (es-tranj'ment), n. [ -ment .] The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged, in any sense of that word. Desires,... by a long enstrangement from better things, come at length perfectly to loath, and fly off from them. estrade (es-trād'), n. [F., estrado , a drawing-room or guest-chamber, its carpets, etc., Pr. estrat = It. strato , floor, pavement, carpet, etc., stratum , a pavement, floor, bed-covering, couch, etc.: see stratum and street. An elevated part of the floor of a room; est rang let (es-trang'gl), v. a raised platform or dais. He [the teacher] himself should have his desk on a strangle: see strangle .] To strangle. Golden mounted estrade or platform. South , Works, II. vi. estranger (es-tran'jer), n. One who estranges. t . [OF. estrangler , Browning. Legend. estuarine estrat = It. estratto), The said commi ioners are to make their estreats as accustomed of peace, and shall take the ensuing oath. Milton , Articles of Peace with the Irish. The commi ioners were to amerce severely all rebellious or disobedient jurors and bailiffs of the king or lords of liberties who should neglect to attend and to a ist and obey them, causing the estreats of the amercements to be sent into the exchequer. S. Dowell , Taxes in England, I. 55. Clerk of the estreats, a clerk charged with recording estreats in the English Exchequer. The office was abolished by 3 and 4 Wm. IV., c. 99.