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  • English Word Allecret Definition A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss.
  • English Word Allect Definition To allure; to entice.
  • English Word Allectation Definition Enticement; allurement.
  • English Word Allective Definition Alluring.
  • English Word Allective Definition Allurement.
  • English Word Alledge Definition See Allege.
  • English Word Allegation Definition The act of alleging or positively asserting.
  • English Word Allegation Definition That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment
  • English Word Allegation Definition A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, -- usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved.
  • English Word Allege Definition To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.
  • English Word Allege Definition To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge.
  • English Word Allege Definition To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.
  • English Word Allege Definition To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble.
  • English Word Allegeable Definition Capable of being alleged or affirmed.
  • English Word Allegeance Definition Allegation.
  • English Word Alleged Definition of Allege
  • English Word Allegement Definition Allegation.
  • English Word Alleger Definition One who affirms or declares.
  • English Word Allegge Definition See Alegge and Allay.
  • English Word Allegiance Definition The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state.
  • English Word Allegiance Definition Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.
  • English Word Allegiant Definition Loyal.
  • English Word Alleging Definition of Allege
  • English Word Allegoric Definition Alt. of Allegorical
  • English Word Allegorical Definition Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative.
  • English Word Allegories Definition of Allegory
  • English Word Allegorist Definition One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory.
  • English Word Allegorization Definition The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.
  • English Word Allegorize Definition To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.
  • English Word Allegorize Definition To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.