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Allocation: Definition and part of speech

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Allocation

  1. n. The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; — a term used in the English exchequer.
  2. n. The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.
  3. n. An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Allocatur: Definition and part of speech

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Allocatur

  1. n. “Allowed.” The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Allocution: Definition and part of speech

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Allocution

  1. n. An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy.
  2. n. The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Alliterate: Definition and part of speech

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Alliterate

  1. v. i. To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration.
  2. v. t. To employ or place so as to make alliteration.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Allodial: Definition and part of speech

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Allodial

  1. a. Anything held allodially.
  2. a. Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; — opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.