Word Meanings - ALLEGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

prop. to free from legal difficulties, fr. an assumed LL. exlitigare; L. ex + litigare to quarrel, sue . The word was 1. To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact. 2. To cite or quote; as, to allege

Additional info about word: ALLEGE

prop. to free from legal difficulties, fr. an assumed LL. exlitigare; L. ex + litigare to quarrel, sue . The word was 1. To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact. 2. To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge. 3. To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending. Syn. -- To bring forward; adduce; advance; assign; produce; declare; affirm; assert; aver; predicate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ALLEGE)

• Adduce
• Allege
• apply
• cite
• advance
• offer
• introduce
• produce
• add
• import
• name
• mention
• quote
• Ascribe
• Assign
• attribute
• impute
• refer
• render
• allege
• charge
• Assert
• Asseverate
• declare
• pronounce
• depose
• maintain
• statement
• avow
• avouch
• affirm
• protest
• claim
• Attribute
• apportion
• specify
• consign
• intrust
• commit
• point out
• allot to
• adduce
• appoint
• convey
• Pretend
• Feign
• similate
• exhibit
• propound
• affect
• profess

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ALLEGE)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Divorce
• disconnect
• dissociate
• dissever
• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate
• Misname
• miscall
• misdesignate
• misindicate
• hint
• suggest
• shadow
• adumbrate

Related words: (words related to ALLEGE)

• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• CONSIGNER
  One who consigns. See Consignor.
• DIVORCEABLE
  Capable of being divorced.
• OFFER
  ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• AVOUCHMENT
  The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• ALLOTTABLE
  Capable of being allotted.
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• OFFERER
  One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• ASSERT
  self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. 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
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.