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47,468 words match “AL”

ALLEGE v. 4 definitions
To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.
ALLEGEABLE a.
Capable of being alleged or affirmed. The most authentic examples allegeable in the case. South.
ALLEGEANCE n.
Allegation. [Obs.]
ALLEGEMENT n.
Allegation. [Obs.] With many complaints and allegements. Bp. Sanderson.
ALLEGER n.
One who affirms or declares.
ALLEGGE v.
See Alegge and Allay. [Obs.]
ALLEGHENIAN; ALLEGHANIAN a.
nding across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.
ALLEGHENY; ALLEGHANY a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to the Allegheny Mountains, or the region where they are situated. Also Al"le*gha`ny.
ALLEGIANCE n. 2 definitions
Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.
ALLEGIANT a.
Loyal. Shak.
ALLEGORIC; ALLEGORICAL a.
Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. "An allegoric tale." Falconer. "An allegorical application." Pope. Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another. Max Miller. Al`le*gor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Al`le*gor"ic*…
ALLEGORIST n.
One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume.
ALLEGORIZATION n.
The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.
ALLEGORIZE v. 3 definitions
To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.
ALLEGORIZER n.
One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.
ALLEGORY n. 3 definitions
A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.…
ALLEGRESSE n.
Joy; gladsomeness.
ALLEGRETTO a. 2 definitions
Quicker than andante, but not so quick as allegro. -- n.
ALLEGRO a. 2 definitions
An allegro movement; a quick, sprightly strain or piece.
ALLELOMORPH n.
of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law. -- Al*le`lo*mor"phic (#), a.
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