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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.

To allege or cite before. Fotherby.

To state erroneously.

To allege again. Cotgrave.

[L., without this.] (Law) The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.

as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. De Quincey.

on on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.

See Allege. [Obs.]

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

er-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill. Bouvier.

se) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court.

To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong.

Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean.

A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.

A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak.

putation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud. [U. S.]