Definitions for alienists

alienists al·ien·ist

Spelling: [eyl-yuh-nist, ey-lee-uh-]
IPA: /ˌeɪl yə nɪst, ˌeɪ li ə-/

Alienists is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 492 anagrams from letters in alienists (aeiilnsst).

Definitions for alienists

noun

  1. (formerly) a doctor specializing in the treatment of mental illness.
  2. an expert witness in a sanity trial.

Origin of alienists

1860-65; alien(ation) + -ist; compare French aliéniste in same sense

Examples for alienists

Why might not Allonby have deceived him as to the alienist's diagnosis?

And yet this is just what the jurist constantly demands of the alienist.

No doctor, no alienist, would have pronounced him mad, of course.

McNamara focused an intent gaze first on Ben, then on the alienist.

But there was my friend Dr. Alten, alienist, who lived within a mile of here.

I feel that she is likely to get an alienist in at any time.

They are the people of what the alienist calls the "idée fixe."

Ezra Melville and Forest, the alienist from Seattle, were already in session.

To the alienist and the criminal anthropologist it is a social pathology.

The English poet's plays are a perfect storehouse of examples for the alienist.

Word Value for alienists
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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