To honor and receive Our heavenly stranger.
Milton.
3. (Law) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere
intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual
possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no
title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a
mere stranger to the levy.
Stran"ger, v. t. To estrange; to alienate. [Obs.] Shak.
Stran"gle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Strangled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Strangling (?).] [OF. estrangler, F. étrangler, L. strangulare, Gr.
&?;, &?;, fr. &?; a halter; and perhaps akin to E. string, n. Cf.
Strain, String.] 1. To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal)
until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by
compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope.
Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself.
Ayliffe.