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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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Etymology of 'Allied'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Allied" Quotes from Famous Books

... therefore, repeat the question, What is the beauty of bodies? It is something which at first view presents itself to sense, and which the soul familiarly apprehends and eagerly embraces, as if it were allied to itself. But when it meets with the deformed, it hastily starts from the view and retires abhorrent from its discordant nature. For since the soul in its proper state ranks according to the most excellent essence in the order of things, when it perceives ...

— An Essay on the Beautiful - From the Greek of Plotinus • Plotinus

... fancy to refute, Is but displeasure gain'd and labour lost. So firmly fixed stands his kingly will That, till his body shall be laid in grave, He will not part from the desired sight Of your presence, which silder he should have, If he had once allied you again In marriage to any prince or peer— This is ...

— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition) • Various

... the Bitley Reformatory, knew that the Chances and the Fates were all allied against his seeing the mulatto woman; but he had learned that it is the one unexpected Fate and the one apostate Chance who open great good luck of any sort. So, though the journey to Westchester County was almost certain to result in refusal, he meant ...

— Romance Island • Zona Gale

... harbingers of disunion, violence, and civil war, and the ultimate destruction of our free institutions. Our Confederacy is perfectly illustrated by the terms and principles governing a common copartnership. There is a fund of power to be exercised under the direction of the joint councils of the allied members, but that which has been reserved by the individual members is intangible by the common Government or the individual members composing it. To attempt it finds no support in the principles ...

— U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses • Various

... Benevolent king, had promptly restored the old chateau to its rightful owner, when he himself, after years of exile, mounted the throne of his fathers, and the usurper Bonaparte was driven out of France by the armies of Europe allied against him, and sent to cool his ambitions in the island ...

— The Bronze Eagle - A Story of the Hundred Days • Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

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