different between inform vs allege
inform
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?f??m/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?f??m/
- Rhymes: -??(?)m
Etymology 1
From Middle English informen, enformen, borrowed from Old French enformer, informer (“to train, instruct, inform”), from Latin ?nf?rm? (“to shape, form, train, instruct, educate”), from in- (“into”) + f?rma (“form, shape”), equivalent to in- +? form.
Alternative forms
- enform (obsolete)
Verb
inform (third-person singular simple present informs, present participle informing, simple past and past participle informed)
- (archaic, transitive) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
- (transitive) To communicate knowledge to.
- For he would learn their business secretly, / And then inform his master hastily.
- (intransitive) To impart information or knowledge.
- To act as an informer; denounce.
- (transitive) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.).
- (obsolete, intransitive) To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.
- (obsolete, transitive) To direct, guide.
- (archaic, intransitive) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.
Synonyms
- (communicate knowledge to (trans.)): acquaint, apprise, notify; See also Thesaurus:inform
- (act as informer): dob, name names, peach, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out
- (take form): materialize, take shape; See also Thesaurus:come into being
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Latin ?nf?rmis
Adjective
inform (not comparable)
- Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotton to this entry?) "Bleak Crags, and naked Hills, And the whole Prospect so inform and rude." (C. Cotton, Wonders of Peake in Poetical Works (1765) 342)
Anagrams
- -formin, F minor, Morfin, formin
Romanian
Etymology
From French informe, from Latin informis.
Adjective
inform m or n (feminine singular inform?, masculine plural informi, feminine and neuter plural informe)
- deformed
Declension
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allege
English
Alternative forms
- alledg, alledge, allegge (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l?d?/
- Rhymes: -?d?
Etymology 1
From Middle English aleggen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman aleger, the form from Old French esligier (“to acquit”), from Medieval Latin *exl?tig?re (“to clear at law”), from Latin ex (“out”) + l?tig? (“sue at law”), the meaning from Old French alleguer, from Latin all?g?re, present active infinitive of all?g? (“send, depute; relate, mention, adduce”), from ad (“to”) + l?g? (“send”).
Verb
allege (third-person singular simple present alleges, present participle alleging, simple past and past participle alleged)
- (obsolete, transitive) To state under oath, to plead.
- (archaic) To cite or quote an author or his work for or against.
- (transitive) To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc.
- (transitive) To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.
Related terms
- allegation
- privilege
Translations
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old French alegier, from Latin allevi?re, present active infinitive of allevi? (“lighten”), from ad + levis (“light”). Doublet of alleviate.
Verb
allege (third-person singular simple present alleges, present participle alleging, simple past and past participle alleged)
- (obsolete) To lighten, diminish.
- and suffir never your soveraynté to be alledged with your subjects, nother the soveraygne of your persone and londys.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
- Hart that is inly hurt, is greatly eased / With hope of thing, that may allegge his smart […].
See also
- Wikipedia article on "oath"
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “allege”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Further reading
- allege in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- allege in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Latin
Verb
allege
- second-person singular present active imperative of alleg?
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