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The act of alleging or positively asserting.

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

Capable of being alleged or affirmed. The most authentic examples allegeable in the case. South.

Allegation. [Obs.]

Allegation. [Obs.] With many complaints and allegements. Bp. Sanderson.

One who affirms or declares.

See Alegge and Allay. [Obs.]

Pertaining to or designating the humid division of the Transition zone extending 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.

Of or pertaining to the Allegheny Mountains, or the region where they are situated. Also Al"le*gha`ny.

Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.

Loyal. Shak.

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*…

One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume.

The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.

To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.

One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.

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.…

Joy; gladsomeness.

Quicker than andante, but not so quick as allegro. -- n.

An allegro movement; a quick, sprightly strain or piece.