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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Allow \Al*low"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Allowed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Allowing}.] [OE. alouen OF alouer aloer, aluer, F.
allouer, fr LL allocare to admit as proved, to place use
confused with OF aloer, fr L. allaudare to extol; ad +
laudare to praise. See {Local}, and cf {Allocate}, {Laud}.]
1. To praise; to approve of hence to sanction. [Obs. or
Archaic]
Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. --Luke xi 48.
We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his
life, approve his learning. --Fuller.
2. To like to be suited or pleased with [Obs.]
How allow you the model of these clothes?
--Massinger.
3. To sanction; to invest; to intrust. [Obs.]
Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power.
--Shak.
4. To grant, give admit accord, afford, or yield; to let
one have as to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a
free passage; to allow one day for rest.
He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year.
--Macaulay.
5. To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to
accede to an opinion; as to allow a right to allow a
claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.
I allow with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that
Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly
reprehensible. --Thackeray.
6. To grant something as a deduction or an addition; esp.
to abate or deduct; as to allow a sum for leakage.
7. To grant license to to permit; to consent to as to
allow a son to be absent.
Syn: To allot; assign; bestow; concede; admit permit;
suffer; tolerate. See {Permit}.
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