illude

[ ih-lood ]

verb (used with object)

, il·lud·ed, il·lud·ing.

1. to deceive or trick.
2. Obsolete.
   1. to mock or ridicule.
   2. to evade.

illude

/ ɪˈluːd /

verb

1. literary.
   to trick or deceive

Word History and Origins

Origin of illude¹

1445–50; me < illūdere to mock, ridicule; illusion

Word History and Origins

Origin of illude¹

C15: from Latin illūdere to sport with, from lūdus game

Example Sentences

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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• tempt