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1 definition found 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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