Meanings
present singular third person alegges · participle present alegging · participle past alegged · past alegged
- Early Modern spelling of allege.
And this prouysyon shall dure vnto the nexte parlyament and so from thens forth excepte some reasonable cause be then alegged why this statute shulde not be expedient.
1527, The Statutes Prohemium Iohannis Rastell, folio 89ᵛ2 more examples
And for to vnderstande yͤ grete yll that it is to suffre playenge in theyr houses it behoueth to loke yͤ fyrst lawe in the tytle aboue alegged de alee lusu et aleatoribus. in the olde digeste […]
1511 [a. 1444], Bernardino of Siena, anonymous translator, The chirche of the euyll men and women wherof Lulyfer^([sic]) is the heed […], folio 22ʳ[…] he shuld be than answerable to all byllis & complayntis that any of the people coud alegge agayn hym and ponyshed for euery thyng that he had done contrary to Iustyce […]
1530, John Rastell, The Cronycles of Engladne and of dyuers other realmes […], folio 4
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