ppl. a. [f. ALLEGE v.2 + -ED.]
1. Produced in court, brought forward or adduced as legal ground, or as a reason.
1613. Shaks., Hen. VIII., II. iv. 225. The sharp thorny points of my alleadged reasons.
1689. Tryal of Bish., 26. The Fact alleadged in the Commitment.
1790. Paley, Hor. Paul, i. 4. The coincidences alleged.
1840. Hood, Up Rhine, 326. The alleged reason for my recall.
1844. Lever, Tom Burke, xxxiv. (1857), 324. The charges alleged against me.
2. Cited, quoted (properly as an authority).
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., III. xvii. 391. Poul also in his alleggid text.
1559. Morwyng, Evonymus, Pref. The authors alledged in this Boke.
1656. Bramhall, Replic., ii. 149. The Author alledged, doth testifie.
1836–7. Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., xxxvii. II. 334. Which Aristotle has so well illustrated in the passage alleged to you.
3. Asserted as capable of proof; hence, asserted but not yet proved; or, asserted but not admitted.
a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., I. III. 139. All the particulars alleadged.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, III. 241. During his alleged illness.
1855. H. Spencer, Psychol. (1872), I. IV. iii. 420. This alleged explanation … is simply a disguised mode of shelving them as inexplicable.
1876. Freeman, Norm. Conq., I. 734. The alleged parentage of her son was generally doubted.
