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/əlˈaɪd/ /ˈælˌaɪd/ Listen

verb

Ally v. t. (past & past part. allied; pres. part. allying)

To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; often followed by to or with. "O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied."

To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love. "These three did love each other dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied." "The virtue nearest to our vice allied." Note: Ally is generally used in the passive form or reflexively.

adjective

Allied adj. United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... of this ill-starred young man; if, indeed, we may safely accept Micky's description of it as accurate. Sapps Court did so, and went on in the belief that the Ball's Pond recruit would prove a gene upon the movements of the allied troops ...

— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

... save the imperilled industries of his native town, and to make it the centre of a new movement for the vindication of commercial liberty against feudal domination. By the winter of 1337 this rich capitalist allied himself with the turbulent democracy of the weavers' guilds, and put himself at the head of affairs. Early in 1338 he began to negotiate with Edward III., and his loans to the distressed monarch had the result of removing the embargo on English wool. The famished craftsmen ...

— The History of England - From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) • T.F. Tout

... similitude; and Art and Nature are more nearly allied than by similitudes only. Art is the revelation of man; and not merely that, but likewise the revelation of Nature, speaking through man. Art preexists in Nature, and Nature is reproduced in Art. As vaporsfrom the ocean, floating landward and dissolved in rain, are carried back in rivers ...

— Hyperion • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... human cunning had learned to collect and inscribe them on stone or brass, or had fashioned them into written or traditional records capable of being safely floated down the stream of time. But the modern history of Archaeology, as well as the analogies of other allied pursuits, are totally ...

— Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 • James Y. Simpson

... inspired by women attain their greatest intensity at this point. Thus it is, also, that of all parts of the feminine organization it is this region which is most severely shut out from commerce." So that, while the primitive emotion is mainly one of veneration, and is allied to that experienced for kings and priests, there is an element of fear in such veneration, and what men fear is to some ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

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