Middle English Dictionary Entry
allǒuāble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | allǒuāble adj. |
| Etymology | OF allo(u)able |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Praiseworthy, commendable; proper; (b) logic admissible, valid; (c) law permissible, admissible; (d) of reimbursement: due, appropriate.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Wycl.MPl.(Add 24202)48 : Sory is not alowable byfore God, but more reprowable..Crist hymsilf reprovyde the wymmen that wepten upon hym in his passioun.
- c1400 *PPl.C (Trin-C R.3.14)18.130 : Loue lawe wiþoute leaute, allowable was it neuere.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)279 : Þe þing to be doon needisly, or ellis forto be doable and allowable.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)119 : It is holde for a dede alloweable and vertuose that wommen were couerchefis.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)3/19 : Þe causis, whiche..ben of god and of eche man allowable and preisable.
- c1475 St.Anne(2) (Trin-C R.3.21)385 : Whyche bryngyng forth was most alowabyll.
- a1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)4.31.76b : The gouernoure..lievith among hem as it wer..an ymage of his allowabill & sad condicions.
b
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)48/5 : Aftir oon maner of holdyng, which is allowable y-nouȝ..mowe be comprehendid..alle kunnyngal vertues.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)182 : Neuer neiþer of þese two now rehercid weies is trewe and allowable or may be holdun and susteyned.
c
- (1444) RParl.5.117b : That in that case no protection be allowyd nor alowable.
- (1455) RParl.FA (Walbran)57 : Suche plees as in lawe ware pledables, and in lawe ware allowablez.
- (1463-4) RParl.5.506b : That therin be noo Protection nor Essoyn allowable.
- (1474) RParl.6.114b : That no Letters Patentes..nor any..Writtes..be in any wise allowable or allowed.
d
- (1425) RParl.4.304b : Ye same Counseill shall have poiar..to allowe ye same man of as moch as it shall seme to ye said Counseill by yeire discretions to be allowable.