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alligant

alligant is the obsolete form of alicant.

Meaning of alicant

Noun

alicant (countable and uncountable, plural alicants)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of wine said to have been made near Alicante in Spain.
    • he used nothing but butter'd beer, coloured with Alligant, for all kinds of maladies1626 February 1 (licensing date; Gregorian calendar), John Fletcher [et al.], “The Faire Maide of the Inne”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey...

Forms of alligant

pluralalligants

Questions about alligant

What is alligant the obsolete form of?
Alligant is the obsolete form of alicant.

Words near alligant in the dictionary

  1. Allier
  2. allies
  3. alliest
  4. alliesthesia
  5. allieth
  6. alligant
  7. alligants
  8. alligarta
  9. alligartas
  10. alligate
  11. alligated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alligant (page history and authors); alicant (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.

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