In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
ALIENATED
alienated, estranged
(adjective) caused to be unloved
alienated, anomic, disoriented
(adjective) socially disoriented; “anomic loners musing over their fate”; “we live in an age of rootless alienated people”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
alienated
simple past tense and past participle of alienate
Adjective
alienated (comparative more alienated, superlative most alienated)
Isolated; excluded; estranged.
Synonyms
• on the outside, looking in
Source: Wiktionary
ALIENATE
Al"ien*ate, a. Etym: [L. alienatus, p. p. of alienare, fr. alienus. See Alien, and cf. Aliene.]
Definition: Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. O alienate from God. Milton.
Al"ien*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alienated; p. pr. & vb. n. Alienating.]
1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor.
Al"ien*ate, n.
Definition: A stranger; an alien. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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