allow to license, to privilege:
“go, you are allow'd”
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, v. 2.
478
“ (you are a privileged scoffer,”
JOHNSON
;
“you are a licensed fool, a common jester,”
WARBURTON)
“there is no slander in an allowed fool,”
TWELFTH NIGHT, i. 5. 88
;
“Allow'd with absolute power,”
TIMON OF ATHENS, v. 1. 160.
(
“confirmed,”
SINGER)

