Allow
Allow ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Old English alouen, Old French alouer, aloer, aluer, French allouer, from Late Latin allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with Old French aloer, from Latin allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and compare Allocate, Laud.]
1.
To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. [Obsolete or Archaic]
Ye allow the deeds of your fathers.
We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning.
2.
To like; to be suited or pleased with. [Obsolete]
How allow you the model of these clothes?
3.
To sanction; to invest; to intrust. [Obsolete]
Thou shalt be... allowed with absolute power.
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.
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.
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.
Allow , intransitive verb
To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
Allowing still for the different ways of making it.
Collocations (1)
To allow of , to permit; to admit. — Shakespeare