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Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.

y the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators. Clarendon.

ds." Sir M. Hale. The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . . . the marriage. Clarendon.

Of all living (by way of emphasis). Northumberland was the proudest man alive. Clarendon.

That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment I thought their allegation but reasonable. Steele.

To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.

One who affirms or declares.

l along, all trough the course of; during the whole time; throughout. "I have all along declared this to be a neutral paper." Addison. -- To get along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. "She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I." Mrs. Stowe.

ge; to provoke. Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people. Clarendon.

Monition; warning. [Obs.] Clarendon.

To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence. Publish laws, announce Or life or death. Prior.

That may be announced or declared; declarable. [R.]

er breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, "I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here."

To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify.

ght appalled the stoutest heart. The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum. Clarendon.

To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person. Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied. Milton.

To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream. [Obs.] Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case. Spenser.

ect or operation of, by a subsequent decision of the same or of a superior tribunal; to declare of no authority; as, to set aside a verdict or a judgment.

make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government. Clarendon.

To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to be done without a cause. Ray.