rare. [f. prec. sb. Cf. OFr. aliancier, and Eng. affiance.]
1. trans. To join in alliance, to ally.
a. 1688. Cudworth, Serm., 62 (L.). It is allianced to none but wretched, forlorn, and apostate spirits.
2. intr. To form alliances, ally oneself.
1782. T. Paine, To Abbé Raynel (1791), 50. Courts … are relatively republics with each other. It is the first and true principle of alliancing.
