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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Allege \Al*lege"\ ([a^]l*l[e^]j"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Alleged}
     (-l[e^]jd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Alleging}.] [OE. aleggen to
     bring forward as evidence, OF. esligier to buy, prop. to free
     from legal difficulties, fr. an assumed LL. exlitigare; L. ex
     + litigare to quarrel, sue (see {Litigate}). The word was
     confused with L. allegare (see {Allegation}), and lex law.


     Cf. {Allay}.]
     1. To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm;
        to assert; as, to allege a fact.
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     2. To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge.
        [Archaic]
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     3. To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he
        refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.
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     Syn: To bring forward; adduce; advance; assign; produce;
          declare; affirm; assert; aver; predicate.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  alleged
       adj 1: declared but not proved; "alleged abuses of housing
              benefits"- Wall Street Journal
       2: doubtful or suspect; "these so-called experts are no help"
          [syn: {alleged(a)}, {so-called}, {supposed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "alleged":
     accountable, accounted as, affirmed, announced, ascribable,
     asserted, asseverated, assignable, assumed, assumptive, attested,
     attributable, attributed, averred, avouched, avowed, certified,
     charged, claimed, compare, conjectural, conjectured, credible,
     credited, declared, deemed, deposed, derivable from, derivational,
     derivative, described, designated, doubtful, dubious, due,
     enunciated, explicable, given, granted, hypocritical, hypothetical,
     imputable, imputed, in name only, inferred, manifestoed,
     ostensible, owing, plausible, pledged, postulated, postulational,
     predicated, premised, presumed, presumptive, pretended, pretexted,
     professed, pronounced, purported, putative, questionable,
     referable, referred to, reputed, self-styled, so-called,
     soi-disant, specious, stated, supposed, suppositional,
     supposititious, suppositive, suspected, sworn, sworn to,
     taken for granted, traceable, understood, vouched, vouched for,
     vowed, warranted, would-be
  
  

















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