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  • verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of allot

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allot +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • He allotteth His favours to His creatures, as it liketh Him; to some he giveth gifts galore while others He doometh barely to win their daily bread.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • ‘The happiest of the just is he for whom Allah uniteth the weal of this world and of the next world; who is content with that portion which Allah allotteth to him and who giveth Him thanks for that which He hath stablished.’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • When they are of yeres able to beare armes, they come to the office of Roserade, or great Constable, and there present themselues: who entreth their names, and allotteth them certaine lands to maintaine their charges, for the most part the same their fathers enioyed.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Now, especially thou, O King, art of the fortunate, the pious, of whom it is said, 'The happiest of the just is he for whom Allah uniteth the weal of this world and of the next world; who is content with that portion which Allah allotteth to him and who giveth Him thanks for that which He hath stablished.'

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • When they are of yeres able to beare armes, they come to the office of Roserade, or great Constable, and there present themselues: who entreth their names, and allotteth them certaine lands to maintaine their charges, for the most part the same their fathers enioyed.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • It is divided into nine parts: (1) belief in the One worshipped; (2) belief in the condition of slavery of the worshipper; (3) belief in the personality of the Deity; (4) belief in the Two Handfuls; 337 (5) belief in Providence which allotteth to man his lot; (6) belief in the Abrogating and (7) in the Abrogated; (8) belief in Allah, His angels and apostles; and

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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