Allegation :: Allegation (n.) The act of alleging or positively asserting.
Allegation :: Allegation (n.) That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment.
Allegation :: Allegation (n.) A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, -- usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved..
Allege :: Allege (v. t.) To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact..
Allege :: Allege (v. t.) To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge..
Allege :: Allege (v. t.) To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending..
Allege :: Allege (v. t.) To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble..
Allegeable :: Allegeable (a.) Capable of being alleged or affirmed.
Allegiance :: Allegiance (n.) The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state..
Allegiance :: Allegiance (n.) Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science..
Allegorist :: Allegorist (n.) One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory.
Allegorization :: Allegorization (n.) The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense..
Allegorize :: Allegorize (v. t.) To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people..
Allegorize :: Allegorize (v. t.) To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it..
Allegory :: Allegory (n.) 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..
Allegory :: Allegory (n.) Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.