All 4 Uses of
allege
in
Moby Dick
- And as for the matter of the alleged uncleanliness of our business, ye shall soon be initiated into certain facts hitherto pretty generally unknown, and which, upon the whole, will triumphantly plant the sperm whale-ship at least among the cleanliest things of this tidy earth.†
Chpt 22-24
- In the abridged London edition of 1807, there are plates of an alleged "whale" and a "narwhale."†
Chpt 55-57 *
- It will readily be seen that in this case the alleged right of the Duke to the whale was a delegated one from the Sovereign.†
Chpt 88-90
- But some specimen bones of it being taken across the sea to Owen, the English Anatomist, it turned out that this alleged reptile was a whale, though of a departed species.†
Chpt 103-105
Definition:
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(allege) claim
(In law, this is something that is said and is in need of proof or disproof.)