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Allow (), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allowed (); p. pr. & vb. n. Allowing.] [OE. alouen, OF. alouer, aloer, aluer, F. allouer, fr. LL. allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. Allocate, Laud.]
1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. [Obs. or Archaic]
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Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48.
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We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning. Fuller.
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2. To like; to be suited or pleased with. [Obs.]
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How allow you the model of these clothes? Massinger.
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3. To sanction; to invest; to intrust. [Obs.]
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Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power. Shak.
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4. To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, “to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest.”
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He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay.
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5. To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, “to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.”
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I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. Thackeray.
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6. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, “to allow a sum for leakage”.
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7. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, “to allow a son to be absent”.
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Syn. -- To allot; assign; bestow; concede; admit; permit; suffer; tolerate. See Permit.
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Allow, v. i. To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
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Allowing still for the different ways of making it. Addison.
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To allow of, to permit; to admit. Shak.
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