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 • Nov. 13, 2012
For its power to illude, an art depends on its limitations.
From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
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 James I, King of England
The longer we gaze, the more surely does the picture illude us and enthral us, steeping us in that tragedy of 'the fruitless crown and barren sceptre.'
From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
Which experience lessoneth them to illude this later, by appoynting certaine cotagers houses in euery parish to serue, nomine tenus, for that purpose.
From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Carew, Richard
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