Obs. In 5 aliage, 6 alleage. [a. Fr. al-, alliage, f. allier: see ALLY and -AGE.] Alliance.

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c. 1450.  Roll, in 3rd Rep. Comm. Hist. MSS. (1872), 279/2. The Frenshemen alied them selfe and enlarge their amite, and their aliage to suche as were beste oute of the kynge’s amite.

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1546.  Bale, Eng. Votaries, I. (1550), 41 b. The late ouerthrowe of the monasteries, couentes, colleges, and chaunteries, alleages of uncleane spretes.

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