allowancen.

Brit.

/əˈlaʊəns/, U.S.

/əˈlaʊəns/

Forms: Middle English allouance, Middle English allouaunce, Middle English aloance, Middle English alouaunce, Middle English alouwaunce, Middle English alowanse, Middle English–1500s alowans, Middle English–1500s alowaunce, Middle English–1600s allowaunce, Middle English–1600s alowance, Middle English– allowance, 1500s alloaunce, 1500s allowans, 1500s alowannis, 1500s (1700s nonstandard) alouance, 1600s alowannce; Scottish pre-1700 allovance, pre-1700 allowans, pre-1700 1700s– allowance, 1800s– allooance. N.E.D. (1884) also records a form Middle English alouance.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French allouance.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman allouance, allouaunce, allowance, allowaunce, aloance, alouance, alouaunce, alowance payment, repayment (13th or 14th cent. or earlier), allocation of money to a person or for a particular purpose (c1285 or earlier), approval, approbation, sanction (a1303 or earlier), toleration (1315 or earlier), admission of something as legal, valid, or true (a1321 or earlier, originally in legal contexts), part payment (a1321 or earlier), action of taking something into account (a1321 (in en allowance de ) or earlier), cost, expense (1401 or earlier) < aloer , alouer , allouer , alower , allower allow v. + -ance -ance suffix. Compare post-classical Latin allocantia (in accounts) (from late 13th cent. in British sources), allowantia (1400 in a British source; < French).Sense 7a, which is not paralleled in French, is apparently influenced by allow v. 2. Middle French alouvance, French allouance fixed sum of money provided for expenses (1530 in Palsgrave in an apparently isolated attestation, subsequently from the first half of the 19th cent.; now rare) is < English.

I. Senses relating to allotting, granting, or repaying.

a. A sum recognized in an account; repayment, recompense, compensation; (hence) a rebate, deduction, or discount.balancing, capital, depletion, tax, trade allowance, etc.: see the first element.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun]

yield601

angildeOE

maegboteOE

allowancea1325

finea1400

boota1450

reparationa1460

contentation1467

disdomage1502

contention1516

regard1568

contentment1603

atonement-money1611

satisfaction1621

satisfaction money1651

content1689

compensation1804

smart money1817

hoot1820

indemnization1836

compo1941

MCA1973

society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > action of placing to one's credit > sum placed to one's credit

bootingc1300

allowancea1325

bank credit1653

credit1662

book credit1786

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > equality between sides > amount placed on other side as equivalent

allowancea1325

society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > discount > [noun]

God's penny1340

rebate1478

rebatement1543

allowance1663

allowing1677

drawback1680

subtrahend1685

refraction1728

reduction1820

price cut1894

a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xv. 75 Ȝif þe king..habben suspecion of ani false alowaunce of werkes..he þat is þerof ateint sal ansuerien to þe king of ase muche ase þe lowaunce amountez.

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. x. l. 271 Þy lord lokeþ to haue a-louaunce for hus [= his] bestes, And of þe monye þow haddist þer-myd.

1421 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1834) II. 278 (MED) The forsayd William Meryng, knyght, ley xiiij days on hys own cost, For ye qwych xiiij days he haskys alowanse.

1495 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 255 The expens..[being] pait be the Thesaurare in redy money, and na allowans maid to the schireffis in thare comptis tharofe.

1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Subducere rationes, to examine the charges with the alowances in accompte.

1555 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 157 The saied Thomas Eynns is indebtyd upon thys accompte, xxxvijli xiijs. Against the which The said Thomas Eynns askythe allowance of the parcelles within writen.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 77 There must be an allowance for the waste of the Timber, for the benefit of the Carpenter, in case the Timber be his, if not, to the Proprietor of the building.

1676 C. Molloy De Jure Maritimo ii. xv. 334 Such Merchant and Merchants as shall Export any such Forraign Goods or Merchandizes..shall have allowance and be repaid by the Officer which received the same, the one moyety of the Subsidy which was paid at the first importation of such Goods.

1740 Act of Parl. in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea (1753) I. ix. 66 With such allowances, abatements, discounts, and drawbacks..as are by law prescribed.

1804 J. Q. Adams Lett. on Silesia xxxvii. 323 This allowance is not abated from his usual monthly assessment, but is paid to him in specie out of the receiver-general's office.

1893 E. Matheson Depreciation of Factories (ed. 2) i. 9 The Law only partially recognises such a deduction from profits in calculating Income tax. Up to the year 1878 no allowance whatever was permitted.

1921 W. L. Musick Pract. Bookkeeping & Accounting vii. 169 A credit ticket is made for each allowance to a customer for overcharge or error in the price or for any defect in an article, and for any goods returned.

1992 Financial Times 22 Feb. 111/1 Try to use up the full allowance of £5,500 for the current tax year.

b. Horse Racing. A deduction in the weight that a horse is required to carry in a race.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > required or suitable weight of rider > deduction

allowance1802

bug1908

1802 Sporting Mag. 20 Racing Cal. 34/1 Hunter's Purse..with an allowance of 3lb. to mares and geldings—Distance not mentioned.

1881 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 202/2 The competitors carried the same weights, with the exception of a slight allowance [to fillies] for sex.

1955 Times 10 Sept. 3/1 By this success Robinson lost the right to claim an apprentice's allowance.

2011 Independent (Nexis) 7 Apr. 44 You can set your clock by Carole's Legacy, who..receives a 7lb mares' allowance.

a. A fixed sum of money provided for expenses; spec. a regular fixed sum given by a parent, guardian, etc., to a person who has no other significant income. In plural: (Military) additional money provided for various purposes or services (distinguished from pay).acting, attendance, child, command, dearness, dress, family, field, housekeeping, Jobseeker's, maternity, mobility, pocket, relocation, rent, retired, sacrifice, table, travel allowance: see the first element.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance

allocate1438

allowance1440

liveringa1500

lowing1533

allocation1535

aliment1563

allowment1646

allowance money1700

appointmenta1715

the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun] > definite or fixed

liveryc1330

allowance1440

stint1447

ordinary1481

measure1552

dimensum1631

plotment1634

limitage1635

scantling1660

ratio1751

sizing1823

ration1915

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > pay of troops > soldier's pay > additional

extraordinary1650

allowance1794

gratuity1804

family allowance1816

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 10 Alowans, allocacio.

1539–40 Ordinances Officers of Househ. in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) p. xxxv Then he [sc. the Clerk-Comptroller] to controule the same [expenditure], giving noe larger allowance than there ought to be.

1571 T. Bannester Let. 29 Mar. in State Papers Colonial East Indies (P.R.O.: CO 771/2) f. 3 They went from yt, and streyghted owr yerelye Pencyon or Allowance to iij yeres.

1605 London Prodigall i. i. 220 Doth he spend beyond the allowance I left him?

1662 J. Ward Diary (1839) 183 Mr. Shakspeare..had an allowance so large, that hee spent att the rate of 1,000l. a-year.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 295. ¶6 They consider this Allowance [sc. Pin-money] as a Kind of Alimoney.

1794 Certain Rules & Orders to be Observed by Corps of Fencible Infantry (War Office) 15 Allowances to Officers. We are graciously pleased to grant the following allowances, viz. To every Captain of a Company..Fifty-six Pounds Ten Shillings per Annum.

1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 87 Five ten-guinea notes for your last quarterly allowance.

1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 64/2 Colonels of regiments draw off-reckonings, or clothing allowance.

1888 R. Kipling False Dawn in Plain Tales from Hills 37 He was thirty-three, with..pay and allowances of nearly fourteen hundred rupees a month.

1909 Times 9 July 9/3 They adopted..the wise policy of raising the allowance of the very aged widows.

1973 J. Ludwig Woman her Age i. 11 Jimmy gave the guy an allowance for uniforms.

2004 New Yorker 29 Nov. 150/2 When I was a kid..I not only spent all my allowance on Broadway musicals but avidly read plays of the past.

b. A fixed portion of food or some other provision granted to a person or animal; a ration. Also in extended use.

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the world > time > duration > [noun]

lengtha1240

date?1316

durationc1384

hautesse1399

quantity?a1425

periodc1475

tracta1513

allowance1526

continuance1530

wideness1535

continue1556

protense1590

countenance1592

stay1595

standing1600

dimension1605

longanimity1607

longinquity1607

insisture1609

existence1615

unprivationa1628

continuity1646

protension1654

measure1658

course1665

contention1666

propagation1741

protensity1886

the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > rations > [noun]

liverisona1325

ordinary1481

allowance1526

diet1533

commons1541

common1638

ration1687

dietary1838

1526 Eltham Ordinances in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 206 All such horses..to be substantially served according to their allowance..in Hay, Garbage, and Litter.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie A 258 That schollers call their commons or alowance. Demensum.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xvii. f. 71^v Non that day appeared, nor the next, till already it had consumed halfe his allowance of light.

1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings xxv. 30 His allowance was a continuall allowance giuen him of the king, a dayly rate for euery day.

1637 J. Milton Comus 11 In such a scant allowance of starre light.

1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 65 The short Allowance, the Bread and Water of a Prison.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 14. ⁋12 We had also but a very short Allowance of Thunder and Lightning.

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xiii. 222 They had but their allowance of bread and grog for one day.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. i. 166 A popularity of twenty-four hours was, in those times, no uncommon allowance.

1940 Times 26 Sept. 2/3 The allowance of butter for catering establishments will be fixed at ¹/ ₁₂oz. per person per meal, served out of the total..allowance of..¼oz.

1961 J. B. Priestley Saturn over Water xix. 276 I'm willing to tell you what I think ye ought to know—to give ye what we might call your allowance—your ration—of knowledge.

1999 Cathedral Music Apr. 12/2 In times past, the vicars choral of Lichfield received a daily allowance of beer.

†3. A balance or remainder. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > the rest

lave971

otherOE

remanantc1350

remnanta1375

surplusc1400

remanent1414

reversionc1450

rest?1473

remain1483

allowance1521

reliquation1658

rump1708

balance1788

1521 W. More Jrnl. 22 Apr. (1913) I. 132 Master monos had of wax clerely in his hands of myn besydes al alowans til that day xvij li ij quarters.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Allowaunce, or that whiche fulfilleth, maketh good, or vp, or supplieth that which wanteth in measure, numbre or quantity, Supplementum.

1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. v. §326. 144 If a man seised of three acres..enfeoffeth a stranger..of two of the three acres..and the wife is endowed of the third acre which remaineth as allowance of the other acres.

4. The action of granting a sum of money, esp. to cover expenses; allocation of money for a particular purpose. Now rare.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > action of placing to one's credit

allowance1528

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > specific processes

allowance1528

allocation1535

writing1732

liquidating1749

set-off1766

write-back1873

whack1885

clear-up1901

virement1902

accrual accounting1915

writedown1920

accruals accounting1963

cookie jar1975

1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xi Suche a wardeyne..shall haue alowaunce of al his resonable costes.

1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 1 Against Church-maintenance and allowance it is not vnknowen what a fiction was deuised.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) vii. 33 Illiberalitie of Parents in allowance towards their Children.

1786 European Mag. Apr. 275/2 That 333l. 9s. 7d. be granted to his Majesty for defraying the charge of allowance to the several officers and private gentlemen.

1845 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. 315 Allowance shall be made to him for all his reasonable costs and expenses.

1878 Rep. Cases Court of Appeals N.Y. 22 405 The allowance took place January 24, 1873.

1921 Southern Reporter 86 757/2 Nor is a judicial proceeding necessary to authorize the allowance of money out of a public treasury or a public fund.

5. The amount of something that is permitted (esp. to satisfy specific requirements or restrictions), usually before a charge, fee, etc., is incurred; spec. the amount or weight of luggage which a passenger is allowed to take on a train, aeroplane, etc. Frequently with modifying word.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > the greatest amount or quantity > quality of being maximal > maximum > maximum permitted

maximum1801

allowance1833

quota1891

quota1921

allowable1932

cap1947

rate cap1976

1833 United Service Jrnl. Dec. 551 In his regiment the rate of baggage allowance for officers was altered, and..in regimental orders the married officer was permitted to carry more baggage than the single one of the same rank.

1897 Cycling 13 Feb. 96/2 On French railways the cycle is treated as personal luggage, and carried free of charge until the luggage allowance of 30 kilos (66 lbs) is exceeded.

1908 M. Summerhayes Vanished Arizona iii. 31 Jack..declared we could not take it all, as it exceeded our allowance of weight.

1963 Social Res. 30 500 The reduction in the duty-free allowance granted to returning American tourists.

1993 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 29 Aug. If the goods you buy exceed your allowance, then you will be up for duty or sales tax or both.

2010 T. Cooper Cycle Touring in Ireland 19 It is..worth knowing whether the bike counts as part of your total baggage allowance.

6. The daily intake of nutrients, calories, etc., judged to be adequate or optimal for the maintenance of good health; spec. = recommended daily allowance at recommended adj. 2.

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1931 R. S. Carpenter & H. N. Hann Food for Children 15 Supper for even the young child includes vegetables and fruits to make sure that his mineral and vitamin allowance for the day is covered.

1942 A. F. Pattee Vitamins & Minerals for Everyone 8 Following are the daily dietary allowances of vitamins adapted from the table of ‘Recommended Dietary Allowances’ set up by the Committee on Food and Nutrition of the National Research Council, May 1941.

1958 Life 10 Feb. 4 (advt.) Since this [sc. 1,400 calories a day] is the calorie allowance for a small child such a diet would undoubtedly cause you to lose weight.

1986 Working Mother Oct. 141 (advt.) A single eight-ounce serving of plain low-fat yoghurt will give you over half of your daily calcium allowance.

2010 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 9 Nov. Do vitamin allowances change for seniors?

II. Senses relating to praise, approval, acceptance, or permission.

†7.

a. Praise, commendation. Obsolete.

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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > [noun]

lofeOE

heryingc897

lovingeOE

hereworda1100

pricec1225

laudc1384

magnifyingc1384

allowancec1390

loange1390

lof-wordc1390

roosec1390

commendation1393

commendinga1400

presa1400

commendmentc1400

praisea1425

roosinga1425

lauding1489

lovage1489

laudationa1500

magnificationa1500

predication1528

extolling1558

advancement1564

celebrating1573

plauda1593

applause1600

extolment1604

panegyric1613

collaudation1623

commendatinga1625

say-well1629

renown1631

euge1658

extollation1661

eulogy1725

acclaim1759

eulogism1761

encomium1785

eulogium1803

commemoration1823

glorification1850

laudification1890

bualadh bos1908

kudos to ——1936

c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 532 (MED) In foul maner he askeþ a louwaunce Þat of his ȝifte makeþ bobaunce.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xi. l. 215 Of logyke ne of lawe in legenda sanctorum Is litel allowaunce made but if bileue hem helpe.

a1542 T. Wyatt Psalm cxxx. Prol. 657 in Coll. Poems (1969) Vayne alowance off his voyde desert.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 259 It is not the allowance or applause of men, that I seek.

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 104 To clap the Hands in giving praise and allowance, is a Naturall expression of applause, encouragement, and rejoycing.

b. Approval, sanction; voluntary acceptance. Obsolete.

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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > [noun]

willOE

allowancec1400

acceptationa1425

allowing1435

approof1439

approving1523

comprobation1529

owning1535

approbation1548

good liking?1560

suffrage1563

acceptance1569

liking1569

pleasure1569

allowment1570

approvance1592

probatum1606

approvement1615

sufferage1622

the light of a person's countenance1649

reception1660

receivedness1661

imprimatur1672

approval1690

sanction1738

go-down1753

rubber stamping1920

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiv. l. 109 (MED) There þe pore dar plede..To haue allowaunce of his lorde..Ioye..of riȝtful iugge he axeth.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Allowaunce, accepcion or estimation, Acceptio.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. To Rdr. sig. A.ii If I did not, holding myselfe contented with the allowance of God alone, despise the iugementes of men.

1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vii. xxviii. 107 They all with one consent made allowance of Vercingetorix for their Generall.

1707 London Gaz. mmmmcccxxxvi/8 Her Creditors are required to..assent to or dissent from the Allowance of her Certificate.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. v. 92 They cannot be gratified at all,..with the Allowance of the moral Principle.

1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 111 He look'd smiling on, And gave Allowance where he needed none.

1877 R. C. Trench Lect. Medieval Church Hist. x. 134 Without his enthusiastic allowance of them and the consecration..which this approbation gave them, they would never have grown to what they did.

8. The action of allowing something to occur; toleration, permission.

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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > permission by non-intervention or toleration

sufferancea1300

allowancea1402

tholance1446

tholing1457

sufferingc1460

low1535

connivinga1648

Nelson eye1893

a1402 J. Trevisa tr. R. Fitzralph Defensio Curatorum (Harl.) (1925) 76 (MED) [The Friars] beþ alwey in dedlich synnes by alowance & holdyng of þese priuyleges.

1483 W. Cely Let. 5 Dec. in Cely Lett. (1975) 190 Plese hytt yow to vnderstond that the alowaunce ys come ower to Calles.

a1571 J. Jewel Certaine Serm. (1583) sig. E.3^v From Christs time for the space of 500 yeres, there was no allowance of images in the Catholique Church.

1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer Premon. 6 Because I could not get allowance to doe it publikely.

1689 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 261 Nor had he given Tho. Lloyd any allowance to sett his hand to any thing.

1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xiii. 184 Some murmur at the allowance of reading the Scriptures.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. iii. 20 By the doctor's allowance, I inclose it to you.

1838 W. Jones Eccl. Hist. III. lxxviii. 570 The bishop of London..gave his allowance for its being printed.

1872 E. A. Freeman Gen. Sketch European Hist. xvii. §19. 364 There were many causes of difference between them, the chief being the allowance of slavery in the South.

1908 J. H. Benton Story of Old Boston Town House 145 No church society could be gathered without the allowance of the magistrates.

1957 P. White Voss vi. 164 I would ask your allowance that I may write to your Uncle..for your hand.

2011 L. G. Murphy Sojourner Truth vi. 89 Tubman doubted that he [sc. A. Lincoln] was a friend to blacks, given his allowance of discrimination against them in recruitment into the Union Army.

9. Acknowledgement of something as valid or true; concession, acceptance, admission; an instance of this. Now rare.

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the mind > language > statement > acceptance, reception, or admission > [noun]

acceptationa1425

admission?1430

allowancec1443

receipta1500

admittinga1504

admittance1534

confession1546

acceptance1569

entertain1616

conceding1656

reception1660

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 1 (MED) Þe allowaunce and þe acceptacioun of oure werkis into a perpetual reward in heuene, whiche is cleepid graace allowing or accepting.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxii. 602 This is a good proofe and allowance of their innocencie.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 27 The censure of which one, must in your allowance ore-weigh a whole Theater of others.

1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §9. 91 Modesty..which is a tacit allowance of imperfection.

1787 C. Davy Lett. upon Subj. of Lit. II. xxix. 425 The Hypodorian, which, by their own allowance, was the acutest of the seven species of octaves.

1842 J. H. Newman in tr. St. Athanasius Select Treat. I. 279 No warrant is given..to the idea that..the Fathers implied an allowance of the proposition, ‘He was before His generation.’

1889 J. W. Chadwick in Evol. (Brooklyn Ethical Assoc.) 325 His [sc. Darwin's] allowance that there is an outlying sphere of special creation.

a1916 H. James Within Rim & Other Ess. (1918) 29 Even though by her own allowance they had nothing intellectually or socially in common.

III. Senses relating to taking something into account.

10.

a. The action of taking something into account; addition or deduction made as part of such reckoning; an instance of this. See also Phrases 1a.

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1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xx^v The landes in fe symple be alotted to the yonger doughter in alowaunce of the tenementes tayled, alotted to the elder doughter.

?1537 R. Benese Bk. Measurynge Lande sig. X.iv^v Ye shal lay to this square somepart lesse than .ii. foote .iii. ynches in length for one foote square in tymber measure..wyth alowaunce of some parte lesse for the odde quantites aboue the .viii. ynches of the square aforesayde.

1604 G. Downame Lect. XV Psalme 170 For by how much the principal is greater, & the time longer; so much greater allowance is made.

1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Nov. xi. 97 Side-span, as we call it, by tying a fore Leg to a hind Leg, with an Allowance for Length of String.

1849 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 624/2 In land-measuring, the scale of operations is ordinarily too limited to require any such allowance for difference of levels.

1876 Rep. Canal Investigating Comm. (N.Y. State) 1358 In your judgment was not the allowance of 280 yards of embankment ample?

1913 A. G. Fulton Notes on Rifle Shooting 18 When mirage can be seen, it provides the best means of estimating allowances for gentle but tricky winds.

1934 E. L. Joselin Ventilation v. 70 When considering a length of ductwork whose sizes are not yet determined, it is usual to assume an allowance for bends, etc.

2008 Maintaining Occupied Royal Palaces: 24th Rep. Public Accts Comm. (House of Commons session 2008–2009 HC 201) (Evidence) 20 The income projections do not include any allowance for loss of income.

b. Mechanics and Engineering. An intentional small difference in the size of parts intended to fit or work with each other; (also) the clear space allowed for a part to move past or under another; clearance.

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1857 J. Whitworth in Inst. Mech. Engineers: Proc. 137 A tight fit is not necessarily a good one... What constitutes a proper allowance or difference in size depends on the nature of the case, and the treatment which the machinery will meet with.

1876 U.S. Patent 184,808 1/2 The wooden washer is provided at the lap-joint with a certain clearance or allowance.

1883 A. E. Seaton Man. Marine Engin. vii. 127 Small engines up to 30 N.H.P. require an allowance of ¹/ ₈inch at each end for roughness of castings.

1903 Trans. Amer. Soc. Mech. Engin. 24 1173 Before making any changes in our present allowances I wrote to a number of engine builders.

1958 Van Nostrand's Sci. Encycl. (ed. 3) 887/1 Allowance is an intentional difference in the size of mating parts. Tolerance is the permissible variation in the size of a part.

2006 G. Boothroyd & W. A. Knight Fund. Machining & Machine Tools xiii. 502 If an allowance of 2 mm in diameter is to be allowed for the machining, what finished diameter should be chosen for the shaft?

c. Needlework. The amount of fabric left at the edges of pieces of cloth to compensate for the stitching and finishing of seams, etc. Cf. seam allowance n. at seam n.¹ Compounds.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > sewing or work sewn > seam > allowance for

allowance1893

seam allowance1949

1893 E. Rosevear Text-bk. Needlework 368 Allowance must be made for joins in the materials [when adding trimming].

1901 A. E. Banks Dress-Cutting 44 11½ inches—is an allowance for single, double or treble box pleats including two ½ inch turnings.

1934 A. L. Hird Princ. Dressmaking iv. 34 Extra turning allowance for fitting alteration is made only on the main or essential seams.

1978 N. Jones Embroidery 66/3 Tuck the allowance under with the needle as the work proceeds and hem down with small stitches in a fine matching thread.

2004 Threads Aug.–Sept. 42/3 Cut the casing allowance deeper than 2½ inches.

11. Recognition of mitigating or extenuating circumstances regarding a person, their behaviour, etc.; lenient treatment resulting from such recognition; an instance of this. Frequently in plural. See also Phrases 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [noun] > involving tolerance

pardon1548

mitigation1588

allowance1649

shading1817

1649 J. Price Walwins Wiles 28 The best of men, are but men at best, and will you give no allowance for flesh and blood?

1676 J. Dryden Dramatic Wks. IV. 75 This Honesty of theirs ought to have many Grains for its Allowance.

1718 C. Molloy Coquet v. 78 I'll..leave you to consider what Allowances are due to him that loves like me.

1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 30 Dec. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1287 The spectators are always candid enough to give great allowances..to a new actor.

1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 2) vi. viii. §3 Apply their principles with innumerable allowances.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. vi. xlvi. 308 He is not a strictly orthodox Jew, and is full of allowances for others.

1919 18th Ann. Rep. N.Y. State Reformatory for Women 59 We may have been over-lenient in this allowance.

1991 C. Brooke-Rose Stories Theories & Things vii. 121 I agree with Lance Butler about the ‘doublethink’ we bring to literature.., but I do not agree that Hardy is as exempt from these allowances as he claims.

Phrases

P1. to make allowance(s) for.

a. To make addition or deduction corresponding to; to take into consideration or account.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > modify, qualify [verb (transitive)] > make allowance for

allowa1631

to make allowance(s) for1794

1619 J. Bainbridge Astron. Descr. Late Comet 19 Here the Comet is supposed to haue no motion, besides that from the primum mobile: but if hee haue any, as this Comet had, it is easie to make allowance for the same.

1684 Third Dialogue between Pope & Phanatick (new ed.) 33 Making allowance for her Head, and considering that Sacred Linnen did not touch the Ground, and it is as plain as any demonstration in Euclid, that she [sc. the Virgin Mary] was wonderous Tall.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 326 He made no allowance for what the portion of the earth in question perspired at the same time.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 340 I have made allowance for the increase.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. §25. 363 Making allowance for the time required by the sound to ascend from the bottom.

1929 A. C. McKinley Appl. Aerial Photogr. 36 The pilot will crab the airplane in order to make allowances for the wind.

1933 Times 6 July 23/2 The figures..show an estimated dividend..of approximately 3s. 6d. in the £ before making any allowance for costs.

1964 Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc. 128 106 In neither analysis was any allowance made for the variation of the apparent size of Abell's clusters with distance.

2003 J. Knox Archetype, Attachment, Anal. iii. 42 Natural selection makes no allowance for the possibility that Konrad Lorenz may be the first thing that a gosling sets eyes on after hatching.

b. To take into account mitigating or extenuating circumstances regarding (a person, their behaviour, etc.); to excuse or treat leniently. Also without for.

ΚΠ

1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies vi. 90 Divine goodness makes a large allowance for a well-meant errour,..but is severe against even a little crime.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 274. ⁋1 To have proper Allowances made for their Conduct.

1766 F. Blackburne Confessional vi. 192 This very sensible writer begins with making allowances for an (humanly) established authority in matters ecclesiastical.

1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. vii. 81 To make every allowance for the colonel's advanced state of life.

1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. v. 34 He made allowances for her weakness.

1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. vii. 4 Allowance must be made for his constant flattery of his own master.

1921 P. Tucker In Land of Living Dead x. 154 The other letters he had had from Louise were generally short, for she was worked almost to death and he knew it and made allowance for it.

1955 C. S. Lewis Surprised by Joy xiii. 94 Freshmen began to make historical allowances for our warped point of view.

1977 B. Bainbridge Injury Time (1978) xiii. 117 He was far too narrow in his outlook to make allowances.

1992 J. Trollope Men & Girls (1993) xiii. 222 You must make allowances for my uncle. He affects rudeness and temper to cover a heart of marshmallow.

P2. grains of allowance: see grain n.¹ 9.

P3. at no allowance: without stint, freely. Now Scottish. Sc. National Dict. (at Alooance) records this phrase as still in use in Orkney, north-eastern Scotland, Angus, and Perthshire in 1975.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > [adverb]

to one's willOE

by one's willOE

self-willesOE

after a person's willOE

a-willc1275

at willc1300

at one's (own) liberty1426

ad placituma1556

at pleasure1579

ad libitum1606

arbitrarilya1626

arbitrariously1653

discretionally1655

ad arbitrium1663

voluntarily1676

discretionarily1681

antecedently1682

discretionary?1707

ad lib1791

at one's own sweet will1802

at choice1817

at no allowance1858

1732 R. Everard Relation Three Years Sufferings in Churchill's Coll. Voy. VI. 274/2 The captain had the best pieces salted up, and the rest was eat at no allowance.

1766 T. Sadler Poems Var. Subj. 77 His Apprentices and Servants..soon began to eat and drink at no Allowance.

1794 ‘T. Thrum’ Look before ye Loup: Pt. 2nd 20 Preachin' an' prayin' awa at no allowance.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. v. 351 His people pluck him at no allowance.

1879 J. H. Ewing We & World ii. xviii, in Aunt Judy's Mag. 17 741 The white foam breaks at no allowance about their feet.

Compounds

allowance money n. money provided as an allowance (sense 2a).

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance

allocate1438

allowance1440

liveringa1500

lowing1533

allocation1535

aliment1563

allowment1646

allowance money1700

appointmenta1715

1667 in W. Young Hist. Dulwich Coll. (1889) I. v. 154 They shall each of them weekly have their allowance money of sixpence.

1700 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 697 One quarter of his majesties allowance money.

1836 Times 12 Mar. 4/3 He did not receive bounty-money, allowance money, wine money, and money for the repair of arms.

1906 Express Gaz. 15 Apr. 103/1 He practiced strict economy with every cent of allowance money his father gave him.

1999 Weekly World News 6 Apr. 6/3 Let them squander their allowance money or get a bad grade on a test when they're unprepared.

allowance race n. North American Horse Racing a race in which a racing official sets specific conditions which determine the amount of weight to be carried by each horse, typically based on the horses' previous race performances; cf. sense 1b.

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1889 Boston Daily Globe 10 June 8/7 I am not disputing that these penalty and allowance races, with involved conditions, are not the best, but horse owners do not want them.

1945 T. R. Underwood Thoroughbred Racing & Breeding ix. 101 In addition to handicaps, the chief kinds of races are condition races, allowance races, graded races, and claiming races.

1982 Virginia Law Rev. 68 860 Invariably, allowance races are for better horses than are claiming races.

2010 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 29 June s5 Artic Fern took an untraditional route to the Queen's Plate, skipping all of the preparatory stakes races, and instead racing in allowance races.

allowance system n. now historical (in England and Wales) a system of poor relief whereby wages were supplemented by an allowance which varied according to the cost of bread and the size of the wage earner's family; = Speenhamland system at Speenhamland n.

ΚΠ

1816 J. Grahame Inq. Princ. Population iii. 124 Could the allowance system..be dispensed with..the main features of the system might be advantageously retained.

1831 Edinb. Rev. 53 48 The factitious increase of population caused by the allowance-system.

1875 Manch. Guardian 12 Mar. 5/3 A Select Committee to inquire into the administration of outdoor relief..with a view of discovering how far the old ‘allowance system’ exists practically among the agricultural poor to the serious depression of their wages.

2005 Agric. Hist. Rev. 53 142 The allowance system devised at Speenhamland in 1795 never achieved national currency.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	allowance
释义	allowancen. Brit. /əˈlaʊəns/, U.S. /əˈlaʊəns/ Forms: Middle English allouance, Middle English allouaunce, Middle English aloance, Middle English alouaunce, Middle English alouwaunce, Middle English alowanse, Middle English–1500s alowans, Middle English–1500s alowaunce, Middle English–1600s allowaunce, Middle English–1600s alowance, Middle English– allowance, 1500s alloaunce, 1500s allowans, 1500s alowannis, 1500s (1700s nonstandard) alouance, 1600s alowannce; Scottish pre-1700 allovance, pre-1700 allowans, pre-1700 1700s– allowance, 1800s– allooance. N.E.D. (1884) also records a form Middle English alouance. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French allouance. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman allouance, allouaunce, allowance, allowaunce, aloance, alouance, alouaunce, alowance payment, repayment (13th or 14th cent. or earlier), allocation of money to a person or for a particular purpose (c1285 or earlier), approval, approbation, sanction (a1303 or earlier), toleration (1315 or earlier), admission of something as legal, valid, or true (a1321 or earlier, originally in legal contexts), part payment (a1321 or earlier), action of taking something into account (a1321 (in en allowance de ) or earlier), cost, expense (1401 or earlier) < aloer , alouer , allouer , alower , allower allow v. + -ance -ance suffix. Compare post-classical Latin allocantia (in accounts) (from late 13th cent. in British sources), allowantia (1400 in a British source; < French).Sense 7a, which is not paralleled in French, is apparently influenced by allow v. 2. Middle French alouvance, French allouance fixed sum of money provided for expenses (1530 in Palsgrave in an apparently isolated attestation, subsequently from the first half of the 19th cent.; now rare) is < English. I. Senses relating to allotting, granting, or repaying. 1. a. A sum recognized in an account; repayment, recompense, compensation; (hence) a rebate, deduction, or discount.balancing, capital, depletion, tax, trade allowance, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun] yield601 angildeOE maegboteOE allowancea1325 finea1400 boota1450 reparationa1460 contentation1467 disdomage1502 contention1516 regard1568 contentment1603 atonement-money1611 satisfaction1621 satisfaction money1651 content1689 compensation1804 smart money1817 hoot1820 indemnization1836 compo1941 MCA1973 society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > action of placing to one's credit > sum placed to one's credit bootingc1300 allowancea1325 bank credit1653 credit1662 book credit1786 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > equality between sides > amount placed on other side as equivalent allowancea1325 society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > discount > [noun] God's penny1340 rebate1478 rebatement1543 allowance1663 allowing1677 drawback1680 subtrahend1685 refraction1728 reduction1820 price cut1894 a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xv. 75 Ȝif þe king..habben suspecion of ani false alowaunce of werkes..he þat is þerof ateint sal ansuerien to þe king of ase muche ase þe lowaunce amountez. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. x. l. 271 Þy lord lokeþ to haue a-louaunce for hus [= his] bestes, And of þe monye þow haddist þer-myd. 1421 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1834) II. 278 (MED) The forsayd William Meryng, knyght, ley xiiij days on hys own cost, For ye qwych xiiij days he haskys alowanse. 1495 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 255 The expens..[being] pait be the Thesaurare in redy money, and na allowans maid to the schireffis in thare comptis tharofe. 1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Subducere rationes, to examine the charges with the alowances in accompte. 1555 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 157 The saied Thomas Eynns is indebtyd upon thys accompte, xxxvijli xiijs. Against the which The said Thomas Eynns askythe allowance of the parcelles within writen. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 77 There must be an allowance for the waste of the Timber, for the benefit of the Carpenter, in case the Timber be his, if not, to the Proprietor of the building. 1676 C. Molloy De Jure Maritimo ii. xv. 334 Such Merchant and Merchants as shall Export any such Forraign Goods or Merchandizes..shall have allowance and be repaid by the Officer which received the same, the one moyety of the Subsidy which was paid at the first importation of such Goods. 1740 Act of Parl. in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea (1753) I. ix. 66 With such allowances, abatements, discounts, and drawbacks..as are by law prescribed. 1804 J. Q. Adams Lett. on Silesia xxxvii. 323 This allowance is not abated from his usual monthly assessment, but is paid to him in specie out of the receiver-general's office. 1893 E. Matheson Depreciation of Factories (ed. 2) i. 9 The Law only partially recognises such a deduction from profits in calculating Income tax. Up to the year 1878 no allowance whatever was permitted. 1921 W. L. Musick Pract. Bookkeeping & Accounting vii. 169 A credit ticket is made for each allowance to a customer for overcharge or error in the price or for any defect in an article, and for any goods returned. 1992 Financial Times 22 Feb. 111/1 Try to use up the full allowance of £5,500 for the current tax year. b. Horse Racing. A deduction in the weight that a horse is required to carry in a race. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > required or suitable weight of rider > deduction allowance1802 bug1908 1802 Sporting Mag. 20 Racing Cal. 34/1 Hunter's Purse..with an allowance of 3lb. to mares and geldings—Distance not mentioned. 1881 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 202/2 The competitors carried the same weights, with the exception of a slight allowance [to fillies] for sex. 1955 Times 10 Sept. 3/1 By this success Robinson lost the right to claim an apprentice's allowance. 2011 Independent (Nexis) 7 Apr. 44 You can set your clock by Carole's Legacy, who..receives a 7lb mares' allowance. 2. a. A fixed sum of money provided for expenses; spec. a regular fixed sum given by a parent, guardian, etc., to a person who has no other significant income. In plural: (Military) additional money provided for various purposes or services (distinguished from pay).acting, attendance, child, command, dearness, dress, family, field, housekeeping, Jobseeker's, maternity, mobility, pocket, relocation, rent, retired, sacrifice, table, travel allowance: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance allocate1438 allowance1440 liveringa1500 lowing1533 allocation1535 aliment1563 allowment1646 allowance money1700 appointmenta1715 the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun] > definite or fixed liveryc1330 allowance1440 stint1447 ordinary1481 measure1552 dimensum1631 plotment1634 limitage1635 scantling1660 ratio1751 sizing1823 ration1915 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > pay of troops > soldier's pay > additional extraordinary1650 allowance1794 gratuity1804 family allowance1816 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 10 Alowans, allocacio. 1539–40 Ordinances Officers of Househ. in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) p. xxxv Then he [sc. the Clerk-Comptroller] to controule the same [expenditure], giving noe larger allowance than there ought to be. 1571 T. Bannester Let. 29 Mar. in State Papers Colonial East Indies (P.R.O.: CO 771/2) f. 3 They went from yt, and streyghted owr yerelye Pencyon or Allowance to iij yeres. 1605 London Prodigall i. i. 220 Doth he spend beyond the allowance I left him? 1662 J. Ward Diary (1839) 183 Mr. Shakspeare..had an allowance so large, that hee spent att the rate of 1,000l. a-year. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 295. ¶6 They consider this Allowance [sc. Pin-money] as a Kind of Alimoney. 1794 Certain Rules & Orders to be Observed by Corps of Fencible Infantry (War Office) 15 Allowances to Officers. We are graciously pleased to grant the following allowances, viz. To every Captain of a Company..Fifty-six Pounds Ten Shillings per Annum. 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 87 Five ten-guinea notes for your last quarterly allowance. 1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 64/2 Colonels of regiments draw off-reckonings, or clothing allowance. 1888 R. Kipling False Dawn in Plain Tales from Hills 37 He was thirty-three, with..pay and allowances of nearly fourteen hundred rupees a month. 1909 Times 9 July 9/3 They adopted..the wise policy of raising the allowance of the very aged widows. 1973 J. Ludwig Woman her Age i. 11 Jimmy gave the guy an allowance for uniforms. 2004 New Yorker 29 Nov. 150/2 When I was a kid..I not only spent all my allowance on Broadway musicals but avidly read plays of the past. b. A fixed portion of food or some other provision granted to a person or animal; a ration. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [noun] lengtha1240 date?1316 durationc1384 hautesse1399 quantity?a1425 periodc1475 tracta1513 allowance1526 continuance1530 wideness1535 continue1556 protense1590 countenance1592 stay1595 standing1600 dimension1605 longanimity1607 longinquity1607 insisture1609 existence1615 unprivationa1628 continuity1646 protension1654 measure1658 course1665 contention1666 propagation1741 protensity1886 the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > rations > [noun] liverisona1325 ordinary1481 allowance1526 diet1533 commons1541 common1638 ration1687 dietary1838 1526 Eltham Ordinances in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 206 All such horses..to be substantially served according to their allowance..in Hay, Garbage, and Litter. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie A 258 That schollers call their commons or alowance. Demensum. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xvii. f. 71^v Non that day appeared, nor the next, till already it had consumed halfe his allowance of light. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings xxv. 30 His allowance was a continuall allowance giuen him of the king, a dayly rate for euery day. View more context for this quotation 1637 J. Milton Comus 11 In such a scant allowance of starre light. 1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 65 The short Allowance, the Bread and Water of a Prison. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 14. ⁋12 We had also but a very short Allowance of Thunder and Lightning. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xiii. 222 They had but their allowance of bread and grog for one day. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. i. 166 A popularity of twenty-four hours was, in those times, no uncommon allowance. 1940 Times 26 Sept. 2/3 The allowance of butter for catering establishments will be fixed at ¹/ ₁₂oz. per person per meal, served out of the total..allowance of..¼oz. 1961 J. B. Priestley Saturn over Water xix. 276 I'm willing to tell you what I think ye ought to know—to give ye what we might call your allowance—your ration—of knowledge. 1999 Cathedral Music Apr. 12/2 In times past, the vicars choral of Lichfield received a daily allowance of beer. †3. A balance or remainder. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > the rest lave971 otherOE remanantc1350 remnanta1375 surplusc1400 remanent1414 reversionc1450 rest?1473 remain1483 allowance1521 reliquation1658 rump1708 balance1788 1521 W. More Jrnl. 22 Apr. (1913) I. 132 Master monos had of wax clerely in his hands of myn besydes al alowans til that day xvij li ij quarters. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Allowaunce, or that whiche fulfilleth, maketh good, or vp, or supplieth that which wanteth in measure, numbre or quantity, Supplementum. 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. v. §326. 144 If a man seised of three acres..enfeoffeth a stranger..of two of the three acres..and the wife is endowed of the third acre which remaineth as allowance of the other acres. 4. The action of granting a sum of money, esp. to cover expenses; allocation of money for a particular purpose. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > action of placing to one's credit allowance1528 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > specific processes allowance1528 allocation1535 writing1732 liquidating1749 set-off1766 write-back1873 whack1885 clear-up1901 virement1902 accrual accounting1915 writedown1920 accruals accounting1963 cookie jar1975 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xi Suche a wardeyne..shall haue alowaunce of al his resonable costes. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 1 Against Church-maintenance and allowance it is not vnknowen what a fiction was deuised. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) vii. 33 Illiberalitie of Parents in allowance towards their Children. 1786 European Mag. Apr. 275/2 That 333l. 9s. 7d. be granted to his Majesty for defraying the charge of allowance to the several officers and private gentlemen. 1845 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. 315 Allowance shall be made to him for all his reasonable costs and expenses. 1878 Rep. Cases Court of Appeals N.Y. 22 405 The allowance took place January 24, 1873. 1921 Southern Reporter 86 757/2 Nor is a judicial proceeding necessary to authorize the allowance of money out of a public treasury or a public fund. 5. The amount of something that is permitted (esp. to satisfy specific requirements or restrictions), usually before a charge, fee, etc., is incurred; spec. the amount or weight of luggage which a passenger is allowed to take on a train, aeroplane, etc. Frequently with modifying word. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > the greatest amount or quantity > quality of being maximal > maximum > maximum permitted maximum1801 allowance1833 quota1891 quota1921 allowable1932 cap1947 rate cap1976 1833 United Service Jrnl. Dec. 551 In his regiment the rate of baggage allowance for officers was altered, and..in regimental orders the married officer was permitted to carry more baggage than the single one of the same rank. 1897 Cycling 13 Feb. 96/2 On French railways the cycle is treated as personal luggage, and carried free of charge until the luggage allowance of 30 kilos (66 lbs) is exceeded. 1908 M. Summerhayes Vanished Arizona iii. 31 Jack..declared we could not take it all, as it exceeded our allowance of weight. 1963 Social Res. 30 500 The reduction in the duty-free allowance granted to returning American tourists. 1993 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 29 Aug. If the goods you buy exceed your allowance, then you will be up for duty or sales tax or both. 2010 T. Cooper Cycle Touring in Ireland 19 It is..worth knowing whether the bike counts as part of your total baggage allowance. 6. The daily intake of nutrients, calories, etc., judged to be adequate or optimal for the maintenance of good health; spec. = recommended daily allowance at recommended adj. 2. ΚΠ 1931 R. S. Carpenter & H. N. Hann Food for Children 15 Supper for even the young child includes vegetables and fruits to make sure that his mineral and vitamin allowance for the day is covered. 1942 A. F. Pattee Vitamins & Minerals for Everyone 8 Following are the daily dietary allowances of vitamins adapted from the table of ‘Recommended Dietary Allowances’ set up by the Committee on Food and Nutrition of the National Research Council, May 1941. 1958 Life 10 Feb. 4 (advt.) Since this [sc. 1,400 calories a day] is the calorie allowance for a small child such a diet would undoubtedly cause you to lose weight. 1986 Working Mother Oct. 141 (advt.) A single eight-ounce serving of plain low-fat yoghurt will give you over half of your daily calcium allowance. 2010 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 9 Nov. Do vitamin allowances change for seniors? II. Senses relating to praise, approval, acceptance, or permission. †7. a. Praise, commendation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > [noun] lofeOE heryingc897 lovingeOE hereworda1100 pricec1225 laudc1384 magnifyingc1384 allowancec1390 loange1390 lof-wordc1390 roosec1390 commendation1393 commendinga1400 presa1400 commendmentc1400 praisea1425 roosinga1425 lauding1489 lovage1489 laudationa1500 magnificationa1500 predication1528 extolling1558 advancement1564 celebrating1573 plauda1593 applause1600 extolment1604 panegyric1613 collaudation1623 commendatinga1625 say-well1629 renown1631 euge1658 extollation1661 eulogy1725 acclaim1759 eulogism1761 encomium1785 eulogium1803 commemoration1823 glorification1850 laudification1890 bualadh bos1908 kudos to ——1936 c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 532 (MED) In foul maner he askeþ a louwaunce Þat of his ȝifte makeþ bobaunce. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xi. l. 215 Of logyke ne of lawe in legenda sanctorum Is litel allowaunce made but if bileue hem helpe. a1542 T. Wyatt Psalm cxxx. Prol. 657 in Coll. Poems (1969) Vayne alowance off his voyde desert. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 259 It is not the allowance or applause of men, that I seek. 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 104 To clap the Hands in giving praise and allowance, is a Naturall expression of applause, encouragement, and rejoycing. b. Approval, sanction; voluntary acceptance. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > [noun] willOE allowancec1400 acceptationa1425 allowing1435 approof1439 approving1523 comprobation1529 owning1535 approbation1548 good liking?1560 suffrage1563 acceptance1569 liking1569 pleasure1569 allowment1570 approvance1592 probatum1606 approvement1615 sufferage1622 the light of a person's countenance1649 reception1660 receivedness1661 imprimatur1672 approval1690 sanction1738 go-down1753 rubber stamping1920 c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiv. l. 109 (MED) There þe pore dar plede..To haue allowaunce of his lorde..Ioye..of riȝtful iugge he axeth. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Allowaunce, accepcion or estimation, Acceptio. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. To Rdr. sig. A.ii If I did not, holding myselfe contented with the allowance of God alone, despise the iugementes of men. 1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vii. xxviii. 107 They all with one consent made allowance of Vercingetorix for their Generall. 1707 London Gaz. mmmmcccxxxvi/8 Her Creditors are required to..assent to or dissent from the Allowance of her Certificate. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. v. 92 They cannot be gratified at all,..with the Allowance of the moral Principle. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 111 He look'd smiling on, And gave Allowance where he needed none. 1877 R. C. Trench Lect. Medieval Church Hist. x. 134 Without his enthusiastic allowance of them and the consecration..which this approbation gave them, they would never have grown to what they did. 8. The action of allowing something to occur; toleration, permission. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > permission by non-intervention or toleration sufferancea1300 allowancea1402 tholance1446 tholing1457 sufferingc1460 low1535 connivinga1648 Nelson eye1893 a1402 J. Trevisa tr. R. Fitzralph Defensio Curatorum (Harl.) (1925) 76 (MED) [The Friars] beþ alwey in dedlich synnes by alowance & holdyng of þese priuyleges. 1483 W. Cely Let. 5 Dec. in Cely Lett. (1975) 190 Plese hytt yow to vnderstond that the alowaunce ys come ower to Calles. a1571 J. Jewel Certaine Serm. (1583) sig. E.3^v From Christs time for the space of 500 yeres, there was no allowance of images in the Catholique Church. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer Premon. 6 Because I could not get allowance to doe it publikely. 1689 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 261 Nor had he given Tho. Lloyd any allowance to sett his hand to any thing. 1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xiii. 184 Some murmur at the allowance of reading the Scriptures. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. iii. 20 By the doctor's allowance, I inclose it to you. 1838 W. Jones Eccl. Hist. III. lxxviii. 570 The bishop of London..gave his allowance for its being printed. 1872 E. A. Freeman Gen. Sketch European Hist. xvii. §19. 364 There were many causes of difference between them, the chief being the allowance of slavery in the South. 1908 J. H. Benton Story of Old Boston Town House 145 No church society could be gathered without the allowance of the magistrates. 1957 P. White Voss vi. 164 I would ask your allowance that I may write to your Uncle..for your hand. 2011 L. G. Murphy Sojourner Truth vi. 89 Tubman doubted that he [sc. A. Lincoln] was a friend to blacks, given his allowance of discrimination against them in recruitment into the Union Army. 9. Acknowledgement of something as valid or true; concession, acceptance, admission; an instance of this. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > acceptance, reception, or admission > [noun] acceptationa1425 admission?1430 allowancec1443 receipta1500 admittinga1504 admittance1534 confession1546 acceptance1569 entertain1616 conceding1656 reception1660 c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 1 (MED) Þe allowaunce and þe acceptacioun of oure werkis into a perpetual reward in heuene, whiche is cleepid graace allowing or accepting. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxii. 602 This is a good proofe and allowance of their innocencie. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 27 The censure of which one, must in your allowance ore-weigh a whole Theater of others. View more context for this quotation 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §9. 91 Modesty..which is a tacit allowance of imperfection. 1787 C. Davy Lett. upon Subj. of Lit. II. xxix. 425 The Hypodorian, which, by their own allowance, was the acutest of the seven species of octaves. 1842 J. H. Newman in tr. St. Athanasius Select Treat. I. 279 No warrant is given..to the idea that..the Fathers implied an allowance of the proposition, ‘He was before His generation.’ 1889 J. W. Chadwick in Evol. (Brooklyn Ethical Assoc.) 325 His [sc. Darwin's] allowance that there is an outlying sphere of special creation. a1916 H. James Within Rim & Other Ess. (1918) 29 Even though by her own allowance they had nothing intellectually or socially in common. III. Senses relating to taking something into account. 10. a. The action of taking something into account; addition or deduction made as part of such reckoning; an instance of this. See also Phrases 1a. ΚΠ 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xx^v The landes in fe symple be alotted to the yonger doughter in alowaunce of the tenementes tayled, alotted to the elder doughter. ?1537 R. Benese Bk. Measurynge Lande sig. X.iv^v Ye shal lay to this square somepart lesse than .ii. foote .iii. ynches in length for one foote square in tymber measure..wyth alowaunce of some parte lesse for the odde quantites aboue the .viii. ynches of the square aforesayde. 1604 G. Downame Lect. XV Psalme 170 For by how much the principal is greater, & the time longer; so much greater allowance is made. 1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Nov. xi. 97 Side-span, as we call it, by tying a fore Leg to a hind Leg, with an Allowance for Length of String. 1849 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 624/2 In land-measuring, the scale of operations is ordinarily too limited to require any such allowance for difference of levels. 1876 Rep. Canal Investigating Comm. (N.Y. State) 1358 In your judgment was not the allowance of 280 yards of embankment ample? 1913 A. G. Fulton Notes on Rifle Shooting 18 When mirage can be seen, it provides the best means of estimating allowances for gentle but tricky winds. 1934 E. L. Joselin Ventilation v. 70 When considering a length of ductwork whose sizes are not yet determined, it is usual to assume an allowance for bends, etc. 2008 Maintaining Occupied Royal Palaces: 24th Rep. Public Accts Comm. (House of Commons session 2008–2009 HC 201) (Evidence) 20 The income projections do not include any allowance for loss of income. b. Mechanics and Engineering. An intentional small difference in the size of parts intended to fit or work with each other; (also) the clear space allowed for a part to move past or under another; clearance. ΚΠ 1857 J. Whitworth in Inst. Mech. Engineers: Proc. 137 A tight fit is not necessarily a good one... What constitutes a proper allowance or difference in size depends on the nature of the case, and the treatment which the machinery will meet with. 1876 U.S. Patent 184,808 1/2 The wooden washer is provided at the lap-joint with a certain clearance or allowance. 1883 A. E. Seaton Man. Marine Engin. vii. 127 Small engines up to 30 N.H.P. require an allowance of ¹/ ₈inch at each end for roughness of castings. 1903 Trans. Amer. Soc. Mech. Engin. 24 1173 Before making any changes in our present allowances I wrote to a number of engine builders. 1958 Van Nostrand's Sci. Encycl. (ed. 3) 887/1 Allowance is an intentional difference in the size of mating parts. Tolerance is the permissible variation in the size of a part. 2006 G. Boothroyd & W. A. Knight Fund. Machining & Machine Tools xiii. 502 If an allowance of 2 mm in diameter is to be allowed for the machining, what finished diameter should be chosen for the shaft? c. Needlework. The amount of fabric left at the edges of pieces of cloth to compensate for the stitching and finishing of seams, etc. Cf. seam allowance n. at seam n.¹ Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > sewing or work sewn > seam > allowance for allowance1893 seam allowance1949 1893 E. Rosevear Text-bk. Needlework 368 Allowance must be made for joins in the materials [when adding trimming]. 1901 A. E. Banks Dress-Cutting 44 11½ inches—is an allowance for single, double or treble box pleats including two ½ inch turnings. 1934 A. L. Hird Princ. Dressmaking iv. 34 Extra turning allowance for fitting alteration is made only on the main or essential seams. 1978 N. Jones Embroidery 66/3 Tuck the allowance under with the needle as the work proceeds and hem down with small stitches in a fine matching thread. 2004 Threads Aug.–Sept. 42/3 Cut the casing allowance deeper than 2½ inches. 11. Recognition of mitigating or extenuating circumstances regarding a person, their behaviour, etc.; lenient treatment resulting from such recognition; an instance of this. Frequently in plural. See also Phrases 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [noun] > involving tolerance pardon1548 mitigation1588 allowance1649 shading1817 1649 J. Price Walwins Wiles 28 The best of men, are but men at best, and will you give no allowance for flesh and blood? 1676 J. Dryden Dramatic Wks. IV. 75 This Honesty of theirs ought to have many Grains for its Allowance. 1718 C. Molloy Coquet v. 78 I'll..leave you to consider what Allowances are due to him that loves like me. 1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 30 Dec. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1287 The spectators are always candid enough to give great allowances..to a new actor. 1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 2) vi. viii. §3 Apply their principles with innumerable allowances. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. vi. xlvi. 308 He is not a strictly orthodox Jew, and is full of allowances for others. 1919 18th Ann. Rep. N.Y. State Reformatory for Women 59 We may have been over-lenient in this allowance. 1991 C. Brooke-Rose Stories Theories & Things vii. 121 I agree with Lance Butler about the ‘doublethink’ we bring to literature.., but I do not agree that Hardy is as exempt from these allowances as he claims. Phrases P1. to make allowance(s) for. a. To make addition or deduction corresponding to; to take into consideration or account. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > modify, qualify [verb (transitive)] > make allowance for allowa1631 to make allowance(s) for1794 1619 J. Bainbridge Astron. Descr. Late Comet 19 Here the Comet is supposed to haue no motion, besides that from the primum mobile: but if hee haue any, as this Comet had, it is easie to make allowance for the same. 1684 Third Dialogue between Pope & Phanatick (new ed.) 33 Making allowance for her Head, and considering that Sacred Linnen did not touch the Ground, and it is as plain as any demonstration in Euclid, that she [sc. the Virgin Mary] was wonderous Tall. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 326 He made no allowance for what the portion of the earth in question perspired at the same time. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 340 I have made allowance for the increase. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. §25. 363 Making allowance for the time required by the sound to ascend from the bottom. 1929 A. C. McKinley Appl. Aerial Photogr. 36 The pilot will crab the airplane in order to make allowances for the wind. 1933 Times 6 July 23/2 The figures..show an estimated dividend..of approximately 3s. 6d. in the £ before making any allowance for costs. 1964 Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc. 128 106 In neither analysis was any allowance made for the variation of the apparent size of Abell's clusters with distance. 2003 J. Knox Archetype, Attachment, Anal. iii. 42 Natural selection makes no allowance for the possibility that Konrad Lorenz may be the first thing that a gosling sets eyes on after hatching. b. To take into account mitigating or extenuating circumstances regarding (a person, their behaviour, etc.); to excuse or treat leniently. Also without for. ΚΠ 1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies vi. 90 Divine goodness makes a large allowance for a well-meant errour,..but is severe against even a little crime. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 274. ⁋1 To have proper Allowances made for their Conduct. 1766 F. Blackburne Confessional vi. 192 This very sensible writer begins with making allowances for an (humanly) established authority in matters ecclesiastical. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. vii. 81 To make every allowance for the colonel's advanced state of life. View more context for this quotation 1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. v. 34 He made allowances for her weakness. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. vii. 4 Allowance must be made for his constant flattery of his own master. 1921 P. Tucker In Land of Living Dead x. 154 The other letters he had had from Louise were generally short, for she was worked almost to death and he knew it and made allowance for it. 1955 C. S. Lewis Surprised by Joy xiii. 94 Freshmen began to make historical allowances for our warped point of view. 1977 B. Bainbridge Injury Time (1978) xiii. 117 He was far too narrow in his outlook to make allowances. 1992 J. Trollope Men & Girls (1993) xiii. 222 You must make allowances for my uncle. He affects rudeness and temper to cover a heart of marshmallow. P2. grains of allowance: see grain n.¹ 9. P3. at no allowance: without stint, freely. Now Scottish. Sc. National Dict. (at Alooance) records this phrase as still in use in Orkney, north-eastern Scotland, Angus, and Perthshire in 1975. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > [adverb] to one's willOE by one's willOE self-willesOE after a person's willOE a-willc1275 at willc1300 at one's (own) liberty1426 ad placituma1556 at pleasure1579 ad libitum1606 arbitrarilya1626 arbitrariously1653 discretionally1655 ad arbitrium1663 voluntarily1676 discretionarily1681 antecedently1682 discretionary?1707 ad lib1791 at one's own sweet will1802 at choice1817 at no allowance1858 1732 R. Everard Relation Three Years Sufferings in Churchill's Coll. Voy. VI. 274/2 The captain had the best pieces salted up, and the rest was eat at no allowance. 1766 T. Sadler Poems Var. Subj. 77 His Apprentices and Servants..soon began to eat and drink at no Allowance. 1794 ‘T. Thrum’ Look before ye Loup: Pt. 2nd 20 Preachin' an' prayin' awa at no allowance. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. v. 351 His people pluck him at no allowance. 1879 J. H. Ewing We & World ii. xviii, in Aunt Judy's Mag. 17 741 The white foam breaks at no allowance about their feet. Compounds allowance money n. money provided as an allowance (sense 2a). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance allocate1438 allowance1440 liveringa1500 lowing1533 allocation1535 aliment1563 allowment1646 allowance money1700 appointmenta1715 1667 in W. Young Hist. Dulwich Coll. (1889) I. v. 154 They shall each of them weekly have their allowance money of sixpence. 1700 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 697 One quarter of his majesties allowance money. 1836 Times 12 Mar. 4/3 He did not receive bounty-money, allowance money, wine money, and money for the repair of arms. 1906 Express Gaz. 15 Apr. 103/1 He practiced strict economy with every cent of allowance money his father gave him. 1999 Weekly World News 6 Apr. 6/3 Let them squander their allowance money or get a bad grade on a test when they're unprepared. allowance race n. North American Horse Racing a race in which a racing official sets specific conditions which determine the amount of weight to be carried by each horse, typically based on the horses' previous race performances; cf. sense 1b. ΚΠ 1889 Boston Daily Globe 10 June 8/7 I am not disputing that these penalty and allowance races, with involved conditions, are not the best, but horse owners do not want them. 1945 T. R. Underwood Thoroughbred Racing & Breeding ix. 101 In addition to handicaps, the chief kinds of races are condition races, allowance races, graded races, and claiming races. 1982 Virginia Law Rev. 68 860 Invariably, allowance races are for better horses than are claiming races. 2010 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 29 June s5 Artic Fern took an untraditional route to the Queen's Plate, skipping all of the preparatory stakes races, and instead racing in allowance races. allowance system n. now historical (in England and Wales) a system of poor relief whereby wages were supplemented by an allowance which varied according to the cost of bread and the size of the wage earner's family; = Speenhamland system at Speenhamland n. ΚΠ 1816 J. Grahame Inq. Princ. Population iii. 124 Could the allowance system..be dispensed with..the main features of the system might be advantageously retained. 1831 Edinb. Rev. 53 48 The factitious increase of population caused by the allowance-system. 1875 Manch. Guardian 12 Mar. 5/3 A Select Committee to inquire into the administration of outdoor relief..with a view of discovering how far the old ‘allowance system’ exists practically among the agricultural poor to the serious depression of their wages. 2005 Agric. Hist. Rev. 53 142 The allowance system devised at Speenhamland in 1795 never achieved national currency. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). allowancev. Brit. /əˈlaʊəns/, U.S. /əˈlaʊəns/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: allowance n. Etymology: < allowance n. Now rare. 1. transitive. To supply (a person or animal) with a ration or allowance; to limit to a fixed amount of food or other commodity. Also with indirect object. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > assign or allot > in fixed quantities > put on fixed allowance allowance1775 ration1834 1775 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 22 Nov. (1778) To reduce, in future, the expenditure of hay to a certainty, I have allowanced them [sc. cart-horses] with hay as well as corn. 1795 C. Este Journey through Flanders 28 The Flemish bishop..was also in distress from debt, and was actually allowanced by his creditors to 12,000 florins a year. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxiv. 323 I have made up my mind..to allowance him... To put him upon a fixed allowance. 1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel II. i. 10 I am allowanced two glasses three hours before dinner. 1931 Times 26 Oct. 7/5 We had to report to our people that hard times were again upon us. They were put upon short time and the men allowanced. 2. transitive. To supply (a thing) in fixed and limited quantities; to ration. Frequently with out. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > assign or allot > in fixed quantities allowance1784 ration1870 1784 W. Walton Narr. Captivity B. Gilbert 50 A small Portion of Corn which they allowanced out once each Day. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. lxi. 142 I'd advise you not to waste time like this. It's allowanced here, you know. 1899 H. Stockdale Diary 5 Nov. in E. Loch & C. Stockdale Sister Henrietta (1914) 120 Of course water is allowanced; it was from the first. Then meat was allowanced. 1940 J. Ross They don't dance Much ix. 105 Badeye drank every night, of course, but Smut generally allowanced out his liquor. 1969 S. E. Wright This Child's gonna Live xiv. 241 Mattresses she was stitching up with the straw they allowanced out to her. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1325v.1775
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