Bid vs Allege - What's the difference?
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(medicine) Bis in die : twice a day, two times per day.
Commonly written as: "amoxicillin 500 mg BID ", read as: "amoxicillin totalling 500 milligram dosage (daily total), taken two times a day".
(obsolete) To lighten, diminish.
*, Bk.V:
*:and suffir never your soveraynté to be alledged with your subjects, nother the soveraygne of your persone and londys.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
(obsolete) To state under oath, to plead.
(archaic) To cite or quote an author or his work for'' or ''against .
To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc.
*, I.39:
To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.
In transitive terms the difference between bid and allege
is that bid is to offer as a price while allege is to make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.In obsolete terms the difference between bid and allege
is that bid is to proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray while allege is to lighten, diminish.As an initialism BID
is Bis in die: twice a day, two times per day.As a noun bid
is an offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.bid
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(Initialism) (head)Anagrams
* * ----allege
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* alledg (obsolete) * alledge (obsolete) * allegge (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) alegier, from (etyl) .Verb
(alleg)- Hart that is inly hurt, is greatly eased / With hope of thing, that may allegge his smart.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) aleggen, from (etyl) aleger, the form from (etyl) esligier, from .Verb
(alleg)- I will further alleage a storieto make us palpably feele his naturall condition.