? Obs. [f. ALLOW + -MENT; or perh. a. Fr. *allouement.] The action of allowing or sanctioning; sanction, approval.
1579. Tomson, Calvin’s Serm. Tim., 96/2. Bicause God would vse this man in great matters, he gaue a greater allowment of him, then he did of others. Ibid., 483/1. The kynde of allowement which all they must haue, that are set in any publique office.
