Word.ws English Dictionary

alledg

alledg is the obsolete form of allege.

Meaning of allege

Verb (1)

allege (third-person singular simple present alleges, present participle alleging, simple past and past participle alleged)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To state under oath, to plead.
  2. (archaic) To cite or quote an author or his work for or against.
  3. (transitive) To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc.
    • I will further alleage a storie[…]to make us palpably feele his naturall condition.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 39, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    plead
  4. (transitive) To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.
    • The agency alleged that my credit history had problems.

Verb (2)

allege (third-person singular simple present alleges, present participle alleging, simple past and past participle alleged)

  1. (obsolete) To lighten, diminish.
    • and suffir never your soveraynté to be alledged with your subjects,1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich]...

Forms of alledg

third-person singular presentalledges
present participlealledging
past participlealledged
pastalledged

Questions about alledg

What is alledg the obsolete form of?
Alledg is the obsolete form of allege.

Words near alledg in the dictionary

  1. allective
  2. allectives
  3. allectories
  4. allectory
  5. allects
  6. alledg
  7. alledge
  8. alledged
  9. alledges
  10. alledging
  11. allee

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: alledg (page history and authors); allege (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “alledg.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/alledg. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.