in the United States of America. . aw. 458 
one, for this verb, in a “ Speech of Counsellor Phillips before a Convention 
of Catholics at Sligo, in Ireland’—~ Indeed, gentlemen,” ‘says he, “ you 
can have little idea what he has to py who in these times edvorates 
your cause.” — I have never yet met witl English authority for it; and, 
in the preface to the London edition of Rumany? 8 leah of the American 
Revolution, it is classed among those American words, which the English 
(to use the editor’s words) “ have altogether declined to countenance.” 
Our own countryman, Dr. Franklin, who wrote very pure English; con- 
oe it ee res ol * The English, in parliamentary language, 
~ commor ; ty the verb.to sufport.—* Mr. W. shortly oppos- 
ed PETES Cass aie. Si. supifiorted it.” . Debates in Parliament, Bey 4, 
1813. 
ALIENISM 3 alienage:~ idiaihishiaetiom was convicted anuaiiied: on his ar- 
~*“raignment he suggested his alieniem, which was admitted.” 2 Johnson’s 
New York Refrorts, 381. 
This is the only instance, in which I have ever met. with this word. 
. The term alienage is common in professional books, though it is not to be 
found in the English dictionaries. ‘“ Where he sues as executor, &c. the 
 plaintiff’s alienage is no plea.” Lawes’ Pleading in Assumpsit, p. 687 ; et 
3 passim, oo > NOSE arr a aside estteees Gabterecaieny wd Lalostisc.t . 
- To ALLOT; used with the preposition ufon ; as, I allot upon (i. cain up- 
on) going to such a place. It is used only in conversation, and that, chiefly 
in the interior of New England. It is very rarely used by people of edu- 
cation, Some use the verb to count upon in the same manner. 
ee “ a love of America and preference of her interest.” . Weds‘. 
- This word is sometimes heard in conversation ; but I have never known it 
~ “to be used in ¢his sense in any American publication. Dr. Witherspoon 
““eoined it (as he says) many years ago, to denote “ an use of phrases or 
terms, or a construction of sentences, even —— penne rank and edu- 
L 
~ “cation [in America] different from the use of phrases, or 
- the construction of similar sentences in Great Britain.” Tn this sense it is, 
“as he justly observes, “ similar in its formation and sig the word 
. Se fe God freee. 
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