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alouable (c.1270)
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alouable (c.1270)

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aloable,  alowable,  allowable,  alloable,  allouable;  alluable  
  FEW:  laudare 5,207b Gdf:  aloable 1,228b GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  löer 1 (*)  DMF:  allouable  TLF: ∅ OED:  allowable a. and n.  MED:  allouable a.  DMLBS: ∅

a.

allowable, permissible: 
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Verité est racine […] E matire de tuz biens alouable  Secr abernun 416
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Iloc ne voleyt plus remeyndre. Par devyn amonestement Returna a crestiene gent (=from the Sultan). Ben le deyt estre allouable  S Fran ANTS 4295
( s.xiv1 )  s’il ne se sachent excuser par certaine resoune allouable  Lib Cust 223
( 1380 )  le dit suppliant avoit un tiel briefe […] de luy allower toutz choses ent allowables  Exchequer Chamber i 3
♦law(legally) admissible: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  Nul essoigne n’est allouable si ele ne seit ordeneement getté  Mir Just 83
( c.1299-1306 )  n’est nul chaleng de franchise alouable  Casus Plac lxxxvi
( 1317 )  Cessavit ou la seisine fut traversé et ceo travers alouable ut patet  YBB Ed II xxii 130

See also:

aluer2 
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