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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To not bar or obstruct.

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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.

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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

To speak against someone or something.

# (label) To renounce, to give up.

#* Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis (1840), 34:

Terrena desideria respuentes, eardlico lvsto wiðsæcgende .

#* (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Seconde Nonnes Tale) in the (tales of Caunterbury) , 447:

Euery]] cristen wight shal han penaunce
But if that he his [[Christendom, cristendom withseye .

# To contradict or deny.

#* (Ancrene Riwle) (Cleopatra C vi), 68:

?ef an mon...deð swa muche mis. þet hit beo se open sunne. þet he hit ne ma?e nanesweis allunge wið seggen .

#* in W. P. Baildon, Select cases in Chancery, A.D. 1364 to 1471 (1896), 136:

He withseieth not the matier]] conteigned in the [[said, seid bille of complainte.

#* 1530 , (John Palsgrave), Lesclarcissement , 783/2:

Sythe]] I have sayd it, I [[will, wyll never withsay it.

# To gainsay, to oppose in speech (and by extension writing).

#* (w), 139:

Bi þo da?es luuede herod]]es...his wif, and binam hire him, and Seint [[John the Baptist, Iohan hit wið seide .

#* 1922 , (James Joyce), :

Let the lewd with faith and fervour worship. With will will we withstand, withsay .

# To forbid, to refuse to allow, give, or permit.

#* Merlin (1899), XIV 204:

I will in no wise with-sey that ye requere.

#* St. German's Dyaloge Doctoure & Student , VI f xiii:

I wyll]] not withsaye thy [[desire, desyre.

# To decline, to refuse to do or accept.

#* (Ancrene Riwle) (Cleopatra C vi), 175:

Þeo...wið seggeð þe grant þer of wið an wille heorte.

#* 1402 , (Thomas Hoccleve), Letters of Cupid , 108:

She...So lyberal]] ys, she wol no [[wight, wyght with-sey .

#* , Bk.XIII, Ch.iij:

‘Sir,’ he seyde]], ‘I myght nat withsey myne unclis [[will, wyll.’

#* ordinance in Collection of Ordinances of the Royal Household - 1327–1694 (1790), 372:

This is in noe wise to bee withsaid , for it is the King's honour.

#* 2000 , , Morte D'Urban :

He was mild to good men of God and stark beyond all bounds to those who withsaid his will.