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allocute

allocute

English

Verb

allocute (third-person singular simple present allocutes, present participle allocuting, simple past and past participle allocuted)

  1. (chiefly US, law) To make an allocution.
    • 2007 May 11, Mark Hamblett, "Attorney Couple Plead Guilty to Insider Trading," New York Law Journal (retrieved from law.com, 10 May 2008):
      Ms. Collotta had to be steadied several times by her lawyers as she allocuted to the facts on the Macromedia deal and admitted to taking part in a larger conspiracy.

Latin

Participle

allocūte

  1. vocative masculine singular of allocūtus