alegge

English

Verb

alegge (third-person singular simple present alegges, present participle alegging, simple past and past participle alegged)

1. Early Modern spelling of allege.
   • 1511 [a. 1444], Bernardino of Siena, anonymous translator, The chirche of the euyll men and women wherof Lulyfer^[sic] is the heed […]‎^[1], folio 22^r:

     And for to vnderstande yͤ grete yll that it is to suffre playenge in theyr houses it behoueth to loke yͤ fyrst lawe in the tytle aboue alegged de alee lusu et aleatoribus. in the olde digeste […]

     [And for to understand the great ill that it is to suffer playing in their houses, it behoveth to look the first law in the title above alleged [cited] “de ale[arum] lusu et aleatoribus” in the old Digest]

   • 1527, The Statutes Prohemium Iohannis Rastell‎^[2], folio 89^v:

     And this prouysyon shall dure vnto the nexte parlyament and so from thens forth excepte some reasonable cause be then alegged why this statute shulde not be expedient.

     [And this provision shall dure unto the next parliament, and so from thenceforth except some reasonable cause be then alleged why this statute should not be expedient.]

   • 1530, John Rastell, The Cronycles of Engladne and of dyuers other realmes […]‎^[3], folio 4:

     […] he shuld be than answerable to all byllis & complayntis that any of the people coud alegge agayn hym and ponyshed for euery thyng that he had done contrary to Iustyce […]

     [he should then be answerable to all bills and complaints that any of the people could allege against him and punished for everything that he had done contrary to Justice]