Verb

(en verb)

To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.

* 2004 , Constance Garnett (translator), Anton Chekhov (Russian author), “Ariadne”, in The Darling: and Other Stories :

he needed a great deal of money, but his uncle only allowed him two thousand roubles a year, which was not enough, and for days together he would run about Moscow with his tongue out, as the saying is.

To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.

* 1855 , (William Makepeace Thackeray), (The Newcomes)

I allow , with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conductwas highly reprehensible.

To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.

To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.

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With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get

To not bar or obstruct.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)

, volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= How algorithms rule the world , passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}

To acknowledge or concede.

* 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam (2011), page 154:

Half the night passed before the wench allowed that it might be safe to stop.

To take into account by making an allowance.

When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies.

To render physically possible.

* 1824 , (Washington Irving), :

The inlet allowed a facility to bring the money in a boat secretly and at night to the very foot of the hill.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838

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(obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

* Bible, Luke xi. 48

Ye allow the deeds of your fathers.

* Fuller

We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning.

(obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.

* Shakespeare

Thou shalt be allowed with absolute power.

(obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

* Massinger

How allow you the model of these clothes?

Verb

(promis)

To commit to something or action; to make an oath; make a vow.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.

To give grounds for expectation, especially of something good.

The clouds promise rain.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 citation , passage=I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.}}