Etymology

Borrowed from FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#ALIENISTCategory:English terms derived from French#ALIENIST aliéniste, from aliéné (“insane”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.lɪ.ən.ɪst/Category:English 4-syllable words#ALIENISTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ALIENIST

Noun

alienist (plural alienists)Category:English lemmas#ALIENISTCategory:English nouns#ALIENISTCategory:English countable nouns#ALIENISTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ALIENISTCategory:Pages with entries#ALIENISTCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ALIENIST

1. (datedCategory:English dated terms#ALIENIST) An expert in mental illness, especially with reference to legal ramifications.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:

     ‘Are you an alienist?’ I interrupted. ‘Every doctor should be - a little,’ answered that original, imperturbably.

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   • 1912, Arthur Cheney Train, “Preparing a Criminal Case for Trial”, in Courts and Criminals‎:

     A trial for poisoning means an exhaustive study not only of analytic chemistry, but of practical medicine on the part of all the lawyers in the case, while a plea of insanity requires that, for the time being, the district attorney shall become an alienist, familiar with every aspect of paranoia, dementia praecox, and all other forms of mania.

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   • 1923 March, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Creeping Man”, in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published June 1927, →OCLC, page 215:

     "Speaking as a medical man," said I, "it appears to be a case for an alienist. The old gentleman's cerebral processes were disturbed by the love affair. […]"

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   • 1927 April 28, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, The Small Bachelor, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:

     There was probably not an alienist in the land who, having listened so far, would not have sprung at George and held him down with one hand while with the other he signed the necessary certificate of lunacy. But Molly Waddington saw deeper into the matter.

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2. (datedCategory:English dated terms#ALIENIST) A psychiatrist.

Anagrams

• Latinise, Taliesin, anilites, litanies

Etymology

Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from French#ALIENISTCategory:Romanian terms derived from French#ALIENIST aliéniste.

Noun

alienist m (plural alieniști, feminine equivalent alienistă)Category:Romanian lemmas#ALIENISTCategory:Romanian nouns#ALIENISTCategory:Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines#ALIENISTCategory:Romanian countable nouns#ALIENISTCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#ALIENISTCategory:Romanian masculine nouns#ALIENISTCategory:Pages with entries#ALIENISTCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ALIENIST

1. alienist