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▪ I. allocate, v.|ˈæləkeɪt|
[f. med.L. allocāt- ppl. stem of allocāre; f. al-, ad- to + locāre to place.]
Formerly only in Scottish writers; not in J. or T.
1. To set or lay apart for a special purpose, to apportion, assign, to give one as his special portion or share.
1640–1Kirkcudbr. War-Comm. Min. Bk. (1855) 157 To allot and allocate to thame and ilk ane of thame..ane competent localitie. 1733P. Lindsay Int. Scotl. 23 This Meeting may then appoint and allocate such a Proportion of the Poors Money. 1821De Quincey Confess. (1862) 68 That very sum which the Manchester Grammar School allocated to every student. 1872E. Robertson Hist. Ess. 251 A system of allocating the public revenues amongst wealthy capitalists.
2. To attach locally.
1842De Quincey in Page Life I. xv. 332 Lasswade, to which nominally we allocate ourselves.
3. To fix the locality of, localize.
1881Lockyer in Nature 28 July 298 We can allocate the absorption of the hydrogen, magnesium, and so on; we can see where they are absorbing. Ibid. 317 Kirchhoff allocated the region where the absorption..took place at a considerable height in the atmosphere of the sun.
▪ II. † ˈallocate, ppl. a. Sc. Obs.
[ad. med.L. allocāt-us; used as pa. pple. of prec. vb.: see -ate.]
Allotted, assigned.
1717Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 336 The stipend..mortified or legally allocate for this.
▪ III. † ˈallocate, n. Obs.
[ad. med.L. allocātum an allowance, pa. pple. of allocāre, used absol.]
An allowance or grant.
1709Strype Eccl. Mem. II. ii. xxx. an. 1552 An allocate for the D. of Suffolk for 40l. ayear given him by the king. |