allowed

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of allow

comparative more allowed · superlative most allowed

1. Permitted, authorized.First known use 16th c.

   Can she come? -She'll be allowed to go later.

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   The second level of reading we will call Inspectional Reading. It is characterized by its special emphasis on time. When reading at this level, the student is allowed a set time to complete an assigned amount of reading. He might be allowed fifteen minutes to read this book, for instance—or even a book twice as long.

   1972, Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 18

2. archaicAllotted.First known use 15th c.
3. archaicAcknowledged; admitted to be true.First known use 15th c.

   With respect to the culture of the heart, it is unanimously allowed that sex is out of the question […]

   1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC