illude
Americanverb (used with object)
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to deceive or trick.
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Obsolete.
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to mock or ridicule.
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to evade.
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verb
Etymology
Origin of illude
1445–50; me < illūdere to mock, ridicule; see illusion
Example Sentences
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Those are questions that illude Armstrong & Co. and that’s unfortunate.
From Time ● Nov. 13, 2012
This prefix thus appears as am-, an-, em-, en-, il-, im-, in-, ir-, as ambush, anoint, embrace, enclose, illude, immure, include, irritate.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
For he dare not so illude anie that knoweth that, neither can the spirite of the defunct returne to his friend, or yet an Angell vse such formes.
From Daemonologie. by King of England James I
That it could do none of these things would rob it of all power to illude you.
From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm
Little by little, as I came nearer, she ceased to illude me, and I began to think of her as 'it.'
From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm
They will never complain of being desillusionnes, for they have never been illuded.
From Mary Marston by George MacDonald
"That baron! an apoplexy on him! has illuded me with his promises of help," I said to myself.
From A Roman Singer by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
Hazy in the minds of its projectors, it was almost universally misunderstood by the multitude which it illuded.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
We admit it, and willingly, and are at least as much illuded by it as by anything else we hear or see upon the stage.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
No, very certainly this man was not a rascal, but a poor, illuded being whose fortune had gone to his head like a wine too heavy for a stomach long accustomed to water.
From The Nabob by W. Blaydes
Nature is for ever illuding the senses; she masquerades in disguise until science tears away her mask.
From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans Wentz
Slowly schooling himself to assume a masque of illuding self-possession and composure, he passed down the corridor to the door whose panels wore the painted legend, 17; and there knocked.
From The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance
We are in the open, the sun blazes in the blue, and all is gay, atmospheric, and illuding.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker
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