= allege, v.1

To allege, assert, affirm or declare. Also const. upon or against (a person). Now rare or Obsolete.

To claim (something unproven) as true; to assert or affirm without proof, or pending proof; to make… transitive. With clause as object.

transitive. Law. To state, allege, esp. formally in an indictment. Also intransitive, parenthetically with as. Obsolete.

To put forward as an assertion or statement; to allege, assert, contend, claim, declare; esp. to allege… transitive. With simple object. Obsolete.

to put forward, allege.

transitive. To mention, refer to; to cite. Obsolete.

To set forth, allege.

transitive. To put forward or proffer as a statement, reason, explanation, etc.; to pretend or allege.

transitive. To consider, represent, or allege to be or do something. Now usually with to omitted. Cf. sense 35.

transitive. To allege or declare that. Law and archaic in later use.

to trump up (trans.). To bring up, bring forward, allege. Obsolete.