allodge

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English aloge, partly from Old French alogier and partly from Italian alloggiare.[1]

Verb[edit]

allodge (third-person singular simple present allodges, present participle allodging, simple past and past participle allodged)

  1. (obsolete) To lodge; to stay temporarily.
    • 1969, David Morrison Rogers, English recusant literature, 1558-1640 - Volume 183, page 118:
      Let mee freely- enterchange a word with thee ( oh! body ) what rusticall & rude Clowne, very block head, and course conditioned fellow should hee be valiewed, to whose house might happen a Prince or Earle to come to allodge, who would not willingly and most readily giue way,...
    • 1600, Robert Barret, THE FIFTH BOOKE OF WARRE DISCOVRSES AND MARTIAL DISCIPLINE: THE FOVRTH DIALOGVE., page 157:
      An encampment of 30000 footemen, and 6000 horsemen, allodged and fortified in an open Campania: hauing a riuer running on the one side.
    • 1977, Richard Minta Dunn, Norfolk Lieutenancy Journal, 1660-1676, page 73:
      Upon sight hereof pay unto Edward Chamberlaine, esq., the summe of ten pounds, being for an iron chest fo the use of the deputy leiutenants to allodge the publick money in according to the directions of his Majestie's letters, given under our hands the 12th of July 1665.

References[edit]

  1. ^ allodge, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.