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allegation|ælɪˈgeɪʃən|
Also 5–6 allegacioun, alegacion, adlegacyon.
[a. Fr. allégation, ad. L. adl-, allēgātiōn-em, n. of action f. allēgā-re: see allegate v. Sometimes spelt adl- in 5–6.]
The action of alleging; the matter alleged.
1. The action of making a charge before a legal tribunal; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved.
1483Caxton Cato A vij, After alle allegacions and compleyntes made of bothe partes. 1490― Eneydos xxix. 113 An aunswere to the adlegacyons of Proserpyne. 1494Fabyan vii. ccxxi. 243 Whan Thomas had harde all the alegacions, he denyed all. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. i. 181 To sweare False allegations to o'rethrow his state. 1772Hist. Rochester 128 Their allegations against their Spiritual governor were groundless. 1823Lingard Hist. Eng. VI. 202 The king's counsel laboured to prove three allegations. 1862Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. xix. §6. 356 An officer of the court takes the allegation, the libel, or the interrogatories.
†2. A statement made in excuse; a plea; the alleging of a reason. Obs.
c1510More Picus Wks. 1557, 27 Saye not thou lackest myght, Suche allegacions foly it is to vse. 1589Bp. Cooper Admon. 115 That the people..did euer use such allegations for their owne excuse. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. 431 This allegation of ‘raggione del stato’ did serue as well to uphold, as..to bring in this vile Idolatry. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 206 In case he excuse himselfe with this allegation.
3. The action of asserting or affirming what one is prepared to prove; an assertion, affirmation, averment.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 1557, 507/1 To proue you the foly of that allegacion. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. i. 19 My former allegation, that those oysters are nourished with salt. 1630J. Levett Bees (1634) 63 This allegation is true: for I have often seene a hive cast a swarme, and within foure dayes cast another. 1658Bramhall Consecr. Bish. xi. 10 The proofe of both these allegations. 1712Steele Spect. No. 498 ⁋3, I thought their allegations but reasonable. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) I. ii. xxv. 644 Nor ought we to call the allegation in question. 1869Gladstone Juv. Mundi iii. 105 Without any allegation of a rigid uniformity.
4. esp. An assertion without proof, a mere assertion.
1635R. Bolton Affl. Consc. ii. 162 With unprofitable mixtures of human allegations. 1775Boswell Johnson xxiv. 221 He also persevered in his wild allegation that he questioned if there was a tree between Edinburgh and the English border older than himself. 1856E. A. Bond Russia in 16th c. (Hakl. Soc.) Introd. 79 The specious allegation that ‘the whole country of Russia was not able to receave so much of English commodities as wear now brought.’ 1870Daily News 25 July 5 The allegation of an excited orator.
†5. The action of citing or quoting (a document or author); the matter cited or quoted; citation, quotation. ? Obs.
1561T. N[orton] tr. Calvin's Inst. iv. xvi. (1634) 663 Baptisme of infants [is] proved by allegations brought to disprove it. 1628T. Spencer Logick 120 The bare allegation of Aristotles words. 1671J. Flavel Fount. Life ix. 23 Which words are an allegation out of Moses. 1673Penn Chr. Quaker xv. 569 The Allegation of that Scripture against us.
¶ Also by confusion for alligation, q.v. |