allodgement

Noun

allodgement (countable and uncountable, plural allodgements)

1. (countable, obsolete) A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge; billet.
   • The Serieant Maior of a Regiment vpon all encampments or allodgements of the Armie is to attend the Serieant-Maier of the Field, & when the Campe is deuided out into Regiments, he with his Quarter-Master shall take the Regiment belonging to his colonell according to his Colonels antiquitie or...1622, Five Decades of Epistles of Warre, page 144
   • Which being done, the Captain, Lievtenant, Ensigne, and Drammes beating a troop at the head of the Pikes, passe through this guard into the appointed place for the allodgement of the Ensigne.1657, Military Discipline, or the Young artillery-man, page 171
2. (uncountable) The state or condition of being lodged.
   • Competition in this, as in every department of human industry, has secured the allodgement of 200 models of different machines for the same purpose, in our Patent Oflice—each inventor claiming to have excelled his competitors in the production of the best article.1860, New York (State). Legislature. Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, page 690
   • They have set the πνευμα off from the νους, and shown how conscience could be partitioned so as to admit of the allodgement in it of what was strictly human and yet purely divine.1883, George Trumbull Ladd, The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture, page 378