alleage

English

Verb

alleage (third-person singular simple present alleages, present participle alleaging, simple past and past participle alleaged)

  1. Obsolete spelling of allege
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
      , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.221:
      he humbly calleth for mercy, alleaging that he had justly murthered the murtherer of his father, whom his good chance was to finde there, averring by good witnesses, before them all, that in the Citie of the Leontines, his father had been proditoriously slaine by him, on whom he had now revenged himselfe.
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