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alleged, ppl. a.|əˈlɛdʒd| [f. allege v.2 + -ed.] 1. Produced in court, brought forward or adduced as legal ground, or as a reason.
1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. iv. 225 The sharp thorny points Of my alleadged reasons. 1689Tryal of Bish. 26 The Fact alleadged in the Commitment. 1790Paley Hor. Paul i. 4 The coincidences alleged. 1840Hood Up Rhine 326 The alleged reason for my recall. 1844Lever Tom Burke xxxiv. (1857) 324 The charges alleged against me. 2. Cited, quoted (properly as an authority).
c1449Pecock Repr. iii. xvii. 391 Poul also in his alleggid text. 1559Morwyng Evonymus Pref., The authors alledged in this Boke. 1656Bramhall Replic. iii. 149 The Author alledged, doth testifie. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxxvii. II. 334 Which Aristotle has so well illustrated in the passage alleged to you. 3. Asserted as capable of proof; hence, asserted but not yet proved; or, asserted but not admitted.
a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. I. iii. 139 All the particulars alleadged. 1828Scott F.M. Perth III. 241 During his alleged illness. 1855H. Spencer Psychol. (1872) I. iv. iii. 420 This alleged explanation..is simply a disguised mode of shelving them as inexplicable. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. I. 734 The alleged parentage of her son was generally doubted. |