ali-
(Latin: other, another)
Prout multis ut faciant vobis homines, et vos facite illis similiter; "As you would that men should do to you, do you also to them in like manner." From Luke 6:31 of the Latin Vulgate, a Latin version of the Bible produced by Saint Jerome in the 4th century.
From Latin vulgata editio, "an edition made public" or "an edition for ordinary people" which is a version used by the Roman Catholic Church.
This strongly suggests that someone's present efforts will prove fruitless so, "We must go back and try another approach."
To keep the police off his tracks, the criminal assumed an alias whenever he moved to live in another place.
2. At another time; in another place; in other circumstances; otherwise: In the alias of the last century, Mr. Smith was known as Lord J. C. Wigglebottom.3. In the field of electronics, a misleading electronic signal that is technologically generated: The computer expert recognized the aliases and was able to modify the program to overcome the difficulties.

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"Samuel Langhorne Clemens, alias dictus was Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), who was an American author who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer among several other novels."
2. Etymology: from Latin alias, "otherwise, at another time". Also from Latin dictus, the perfect passive participle of dico, "to say".2. The fact of having been elsewhere when a crime in question was committed.
3. An explanation offered to avoid blame or justify action; an excuse.
2. To make an excuse for another person.
2. Anyone who does not belong to, or does not feel accepted by, a group or society.
3. A being from another planet, or another part of the universe; especially, in works of science fiction.
4. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
Expressed by Seneca, in his writing titled, On Anger.
2. Conveying a capability of being relocated by a legal process to another person.
2. To cause someone to change his or her previously friendly or supportive attitude and to become unfriendly, unsympathetic, or hostile.
3. To make someone feel that he or she does not belong to or is not allowed to share in something, or is isolated from it: "People with such behavior often feel alienated from society."
4. To cause something, especially someone's affections, to be directed toward somebody or something else.
5. To transfer property, or a legal right, to the ownership of another person; especially, by an act of the owner rather than by inheritance.

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Another version is, "No use trying to keep a secret." A warning that when more than one person knows something, it is no longer a secret because there is usually someone who will talk about it.
From Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C. - c. A.D. 17).
2. Incapable of being repudiated or conveyed to another person.
3. Not subject to forfeiture.
Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "another, other, different, alternating, changing": allo-; alter-; allelo-; hetero-; mut-; poikilo-; reciproc-; vari-.