ppl. a. [f. ALLOW + -ED.]
† 1. Praised, approved, sanctioned, accepted as satisfactory. Obs.
1382. Wyclif, Wisd. ix. 12. My werkys shul ben aloowid [1388 acceptable].
1580. Baret, Alv., A 297. No man better esteemed or alowed of his countrie men, Nemo probatior suis.
1728. Morgan, Algiers, I. vi. 184. The Names of the twelve … allowed and accepted by the majority.
2. Permitted by authority, licensed.
1589. Hay any Work, 39. He solde it to an allowed printer.
1593. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong., An allowed cart or chariot.
1601. Shaks., Twel. N., I. v. 101. There is no slander in an allow’d foole, though he do nothing but rayle.
1690. J. Norris, On Beatitudes, Wks. IV. 352. Moderate even in the most allow’d Enjoyments.
1829. I. Taylor, Enthus., viii. 206. The allowed enjoyments of domestic life.
3. Acknowledged, admitted.
1749. Chesterf., Lett., 180, II. 169. The allowed and established models of good breeding.
1872. C. Hammond, Text. Crit. (1880), Introd. 8. We have the following allowed facts to start with.
4. Assigned as a portion or due share; allotted.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., Alowede, Allocatus.
1578. Cecil Papers, in Monthly Mag., XXXVI. 43. Havinge only duringe that tyme allowed unto him breade and water.
5. Remitted, deducted in reckoning.
1674. Coles, Allowed in Reckoning, Substractus.
