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; illusion
Example Sentences
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Those are questions that illude Armstrong & Co. and that’s unfortunate.
From Time
This prefix thus appears as am-, an-, em-, en-, il-, im-, in-, ir-, as ambush, anoint, embrace, enclose, illude, immure, include, irritate.
From Project Gutenberg
Illude, il-lūd′, v.t. to play upon by artifice: to deceive.
From Project Gutenberg
I acknowledge I have not sent to you ’till now, but it was because it was utterly impossible, my Father continually keeping so strict a Guard over me himself, that not even Mercury could evade or illude his Vigilance.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
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