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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.]
   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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   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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   To sanction; to invest; to intrust. [Obs.]
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   Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power.
   Shak.
   
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   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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   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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   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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   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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