v
(obsolete, transitive) To allay or alleviate; to lighten.
adv
(obsolete) In any way; at all.
v
Obsolete spelling of allege [(obsolete, transitive) To state under oath, to plead.]
v
Obsolete form of allege. [(obsolete, transitive) To state under oath, to plead.]
v
Obsolete spelling of allege [(obsolete, transitive) To state under oath, to plead.]
v
(rare, nonstandard) To make an allegation of; to allege.
n
(obsolete) A person who alleges
v
(obsolete, transitive) To state under oath, to plead.
n
A person who alleges, especially one who makes a formal allegation.
v
Obsolete form of allege. [(obsolete, transitive) To state under oath, to plead.]
v
(archaic) To charge (someone) with a crime; to impeach.
v
To officially charge someone in a court of law.
n
(obsolete) Rare spelling of attainder. [(law, rare) The state a prisoner enters once a death sentence (usually for treason) had been issued; the state of being stripped of all civil rights.]
v
(transitive, rare) To call a liar; to accuse of falsehood.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To warn or caution against some event.
v
(archaic, transitive) To accuse; to indict.
n
Swearing (as a witness) persistently to what is false; perjury.
v
To bring a legal proceeding against a public official.
v
(obsolete) To allege; to assert.
v
(UK dialectal, Northern England, transitive) Alternative form of manswear [(transitive, chiefly Britain, dialectal) To swear falsely; perjure oneself.]
adj
(archaic) Pronunciation spelling of obliged. [Under an obligation to do something.]
v
(transitive) To discuss by arguments.
v
Alternative spelling of plead the Fifth (both senses) [(law, US) To invoke the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which protects witnesses from being forced to incriminate themselves.]
v
Synonym of promise the moon
v
(archaic, simile) Synonym of swear like a trooper
n
(law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
v
(transitive) To maintain or defend (a cause) against opposition.
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