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ALIENIST
Noun. Now chiefly US. M19.
[French alieniste, from Old French, or Latin alienatio(n-)]
An expert in mental illness, esp. from a legal stand-point.
I do wonder if it's counter-productive to tell someone who's suffering from paranoid delusions of extra-terrestrial abductions and government cover-ups that they're being referred to the care of an alienist. Eek!
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