allot vs delegate

allot

verb
  • To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose. 

  • To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot. 

delegate

verb
  • to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate 

  • (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own 

  • to authorize someone to be a delegate 

noun
  • A representative at a conference, etc. 

  • A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer. 

  • An appointed representative in some legislative bodies. 

  • A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy. 

How often have the words allot and delegate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )