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Definition of Allege
1. Verb. Report or maintain. "They allege that there was a traffic accident "; "The registrar says that I owe the school money"
Specialized synonyms: Plead
Generic synonyms: Assert, Asseverate, Maintain
Derivative terms: Allegement, Say
Definition of Allege
1. v. t. To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.
2. v. t. To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble.
Definition of Allege
1. Verb. (obsolete) To lighten, diminish. ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To state under oath, to plead. ¹
3. Verb. (archaic) To cite or quote an author or his work ''for'' or ''against''. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Allege
1. to assert without proof or before proving [v -LEGED, -LEGING, -LEGES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allege
Literary usage of Allege
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1916)
"An indictment which fails to allege that the accused persons were of opposite
sexes, and that they cohabited as husband LR. ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Plaintiffs allege in their bill that they are members in good and regular standing of
... And they further allege that Hackney, whose duty it is as elder, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions: Comprising a by Henry John Stephen (1894)
"(a;) So if a feoffment be pleaded it is not necessary to allege livery of seisin,
... So if a man plead that he is heir to A. be need not allege that ..."
4. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"So where one is obliged to deliver all his evidences, or to assure all his lands,
it suffi- ceth to allege that he hath delivered all his evidence, ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby, John Innes Clark Hare, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Horace Binney Wallace (1844)
"With regard to the second point, the plaintiffs allege that the goods of both
bankrupts were theirs at the time of the conversion; that averment was not ..."
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