allowv.

Etymology: Partly (i) < Anglo-Norman alower, aluer and Middle French (rare) aloer to laud, praise (God, a person) (a1170 or earlier in Anglo-Norman; in Old French apparently only in sense ‘to advise, suggest (something)’ (second half of the 12th cent.); < a- a- prefix⁵ + loer , louer to praise (c1100; earlier as lauder (second half of the 10th cent.); < classical Latin laudāre laud v.; compare classical Latin allaudāre allaud v.); and partly (ii) < Anglo-Norman alower, allower, alouer, allouer, aloer to allot, apportion (something) (1139), to take (something) into account, to consider (something) (1268 or earlier), to grant (a payment or possession) (c1285 or earlier), to give an allowance to (a person) (c1285 or earlier), to assess, to count (something) (c1285 or earlier), to admit (an exception, a legal procedure), to permit (an event, an activity) (both end of the 13th cent. or earlier), to credit (money) to an account (a1346 or earlier), to accept (a document) as legally valid or permissible (early 14th cent. or earlier), specific sense developments of Anglo-Norman alower, allower, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French aloer, allouer, alouer to place, install, to situate (a person or thing) (c1040 in Old French), to arrange (one or more things) (first third of the 13th cent. or earlier) < post-classical Latin allocare allocate v. Compare also Middle French, French allouer to approve of, to sanction (something) (15th cent.; obsolete after late 17th cent.), to enter (an item) into an account (1536, earliest in a figurative context), to concede (something) (1585), which may in later use have been reinforced by the English verb. Compare later 'low v.³With the form anlow compare the discussion of ancordyng, variant of according adv., at that entry.