different between allegate vs prosecute

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æl??e?t/

Etymology 1

Back-formation from allegation.

Verb

allegate (third-person singular simple present allegates, present participle allegating, simple past and past participle allegated)

1. (rare, nonstandard) To make an allegation of; to allege.

Related terms

• allege

Translations

Etymology 2

A confusion of allocate with delegate.

Verb

allegate (third-person singular simple present allegates, present participle allegating, simple past and past participle allegated)

1. (transitive, rare, nonstandard) To delegate.

Italian

Adjective

allegate

1. feminine plural of allegato

Anagrams

• legatela

Latin

Verb

all?g?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of all?g?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?sec?tus, perfect participle of pr?sequor. Doublet of pursue, from Old French. Compare also persecute.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??s?kju?t/

Verb

prosecute (third-person singular simple present prosecutes, present participle prosecuting, simple past and past participle prosecuted)

1. (transitive, law) To start criminal proceedings against.

   to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot
2. (transitive, law) To charge, try.
   • 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, page 9

     The Vigilante is prosecuted in Federal Court under a lynch bill and winds up in a Federal Nut House specially designed for the containment of ghosts […]

3. To seek to obtain by legal process.

   to prosecute a right or a claim in a court of law

4. (transitive) To pursue something to the end.

   to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim

Derived terms

• prosecutable

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• creeps out, outcreeps

Latin

Participle

pr?sec?te

1. vocative masculine singular of pr?sec?tus