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allow
English
Etymology
From Middle English allowen, alowen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman allouer, alouer, from Medieval Latin allaud?re, present active infinitive of allaud?, merged with alouer, from Medieval Latin alloc? (“to assign”). The similarity with Middle English alyfen (from Old English ?l?fan, ?l?efan) and German erlauben, both from Proto-Germanic *uzlaubijan? (“to allow”) is coincidental.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??la?/
- enPR: ?-lou'
- Rhymes: -a?
Verb
allow (third-person singular simple present allows, present participle allowing, simple past and past participle allowed)
- (transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
- (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
- (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
- (transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
- To not bar or obstruct.
- (transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.
- (transitive) To render physically possible.
- (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
- (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
- (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.
Synonyms
- allot, assign, bestow, concede, admit, let, permit, suffer, tolerate
Derived terms
Related terms
- allowance
- disallow
Translations
References
- allow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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stomach
English
Alternative forms
- stomack (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (stómakhos), from ????? (stóma, “mouth”).
Displaced native Middle English bouk, buc (“belly, stomach”) from Old English b?c (“belly, stomach”); largely displaced Middle English mawe, maghe, ma?e (“stomach, maw”) from Old English maga (“stomach, maw”). More at bucket and maw.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st?m?k/
Noun
stomach (countable and uncountable, plural stomachs)
- An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
- (informal) The belly.
- Synonyms: belly, abdomen, tummy, (obsolete) bouk, gut, guts, (archaic) maw
- (uncountable, obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […].
- 1613, William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth, IV. ii. 34:
- He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking / Himself with princes;
- This sort of crying […] proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- (obsolete) Appetite.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, I. ii. 50:
- You come not home because you have no stomach. / You have no stomach, having broke your fast.
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 920-922,[1]
- HOST. How say you sir, doo you please to sit downe?
- EUMENIDES. Hostes I thanke you, I haue no great stomack.
- , II.ii.1.2:
- If after seven hours' tarrying he shall have no stomach, let him defer his meal, or eat very little at his ordinary time of repast.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, I. ii. 50:
- (figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
Derived terms
Related terms
- stomachic
- stomachal
Translations
Verb
stomach (third-person singular simple present stomachs, present participle stomaching, simple past and past participle stomached)
- (transitive) To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be angry.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- Let a man, though never so justly, oppose himself unto them that are disordered in their ways; and what one amongst them commonly doth not stomach at such contradiction, storm at reproof, and hate such as would reform them?
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- (obsolete, transitive) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
- 1607, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, III. iv. 12:
- O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.
- 1607, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, III. iv. 12:
- (obsolete, transitive) To turn the stomach of; to sicken or repel.
Synonyms
- (to tolerate): brook, put up with; See also Thesaurus:tolerate
- (to be angry):
- (to resent): See also Thesaurus:dislike
Derived terms
- stomachable
- unstomachable
Translations
Anagrams
- Satchmo
Middle English
Noun
stomach
- Alternative form of stomak
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