Crossword clues for allege
allege
- Cite in discussion
- Accuse without established proof
- Claim covered by local legend
- Assert without proof everyone European has good English
- Declare under oath
- Claim to be true
- Accuse tentatively
- Make an accusation
- Accuse without proof
- Bring a charge
- Put forth without proof
- Profess without proof
- Offer without proof
- Make, as a claim
- Make accusations
- Maintain (that)
- Give as an excuse
- Declare with positiveness
- Claim in court
- Bring charges, perhaps
- Aver — maintain
- Assert accusatively
- Accuse in a courtroom
- Maintain sans proof
- Aver without firm evidence
- Claim without proof
- Declare to be true
- Assert without proof
- Contend
- Hold
- Make as a claim
- Make a claim
- State without proof
- Put forward
- Assert sans evidence
- Assert sans proof
- Purport
- Declare sans proof
- Declare without proof
- Say it's so
- Declare, in court
- Offer, as a plea
- Fourth Estate verb
- State as an excuse
- Say it is so
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Allege \Al*lege"\, v. t. [See Allay.]
To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble. [Obs.]
--Wyclif.
Allege \Al*lege"\ ([a^]l*l[e^]j"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alleged (-l[e^]jd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Alleging.] [OE. aleggen to bring forward as evidence, OF. esligier to buy, prop. to free from legal difficulties, fr. an assumed LL. exlitigare; L. ex + litigare to quarrel, sue (see Litigate). The word was confused with L. allegare (see Allegation), and lex law. Cf. Allay.]
To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.
To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge.
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To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.
Syn: To bring forward; adduce; advance; assign; produce; declare; affirm; assert; aver; predicate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300. It has the form of one French verb and the meaning of another. The form is Anglo-French aleger, Old French eslegier "to clear at law," from Latin ex- "out of" (see ex-) and litigare "bring suit" (see litigate); however eslegier meant "acquit, clear of charges in a lawsuit." It somehow acquired the meaning of French alléguer, from Latin allegare "send for, bring forth, name, produce in evidence," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + legare "to depute, send" (see legate). Related: Alleged; alleging.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (context obsolete English) To lighten, diminish. Etymology 2
vb. 1 (context obsolete transitive English) To state under oath, to plead. 2 (context archaic English) To cite or quote an author or his work ''for'' or ''against''. 3 (context transitive English) To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc. 4 (context transitive English) To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.
WordNet
Usage examples of "allege".
The complaint further alleged that the office of the Seminole County Supervisor of Elections failed to inform the Democratic Party of the actions of the Republican Party volunteers and to afford them the same opportunity to correct defective requests for absentee ballots from Democratic Party members.
The anti-courtiers alleged, that the queen could not send a message to any one house to adjourn, but ought to have directed it to both houses.
June, 1896, great stress was laid on the fact of the difference in the admixture of inks found on letters contemporaneous with the date of the will, and it was asserted also that the ink with which the will was written was not in existence at the time it was alleged to have been made, June 14, 1873, and probably not earlier than ten years later.
Cobden was agitating a scheme for returning to the expenditure of 1835, by which he alleged ten millions annually would have been saved.
So we both alleged a state of utter repletion, and did not solve the mystery of the contents of the cupboard,--not too luxurious, it may be conjectured, and yet kindly offered, so that we felt there was a moist filament of the social instinct running like a nerve through that exsiccated and almost anhydrous organism.
Judge, answering to the said appeal, if it may be called an appeal, says that he, the Judge, has proceeded and did intend to proceed in accordance with the Canonical decrees and the Imperial statutes and laws, and has not departed from the path of either law nor intended so to depart, and has in no way acted or intended to act unjustly towards the appellant, as is manifest from an examination of the alleged grounds for this appeal.
Judge, answering to the said appeal, if it may be called an appeal, if it may be called an appeal, says that he has proceeded in the present cause justly and as he ought and not otherwise, nor has he molested or intended to molest the appellant, as is apparent from a perusal of the alleged objections.
How sad it is you will realize when I tell you that daily I thank God on my knees - for I still believe in God, despite what was alleged against me by the inquisitors of Aragon - that she who inspired this love of which I am to tell you is now in the peace of death.
The cells containing the six alleged assaulters were opened with the misplaced keys.
B, Infant, acting through his curator bonis and guardian ad litem, filed an action as owner and bailor of the chattel, a dog of tender years named Spot, alleging negligence on the part of the Village, in a cross claim for indemnity under Fed.
Village in its capacity as bailee, however inadvertently and unhappily arrived at, failed in its duty to bailor under the requisite standard of care and through such alleged negligence is liable for damages so incurred.
With a grunt, he went through to the grog-shop, whence were borne odours of sausage, ale, wine, tar and sweat on gusts of argument, laughter, bawdry and alleged song.
He specifically discussed the charge made by Susannah Goodwin who alleged that Elizabeth had bewitched her child.
The popular herbal drink known as Hop Bitters is said to owe many of its supposed virtues to the bryony root, substituted for the mandrake which it is alleged to contain.
Mom had provided Homer with a vision of how his alleged buggery would be treated and, doubtlessly, cured.