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allude, v.|əˈl(j)uːd|
[ad. L. allūd-ĕre to play with, joke or jest at, dally with, touch lightly upon a subject; f. al- = ad- to + lūdĕre to play.]
†1. trans. To play with, make game of, mock. Obs.
1535Henry VIII in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. ii. App. liii, Making him [the Pope] a God, to the great deceit, alluding, and seducing of our subjects. 1577Dee Relat. ab. Spirits i. (1659) 418, E. K. then came to me and said, I think there is some wicked spirit that would allude me.
†2. To play upon words, to refer by play of words:
a. intr. To play upon, or make a play with (words); to pun.
b. trans. To refer by word-play, to apply punningly.
c. intr. To have a punning reference. Obs.
1553–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 1/1 Christ..alluding to his [St. Peter's] name, called him a rock. 1556Recorde Cast. Knowl. 4 There canne be no such allusion of woordes in the englyshe..except a man wold rather allude at the woordes, than expresse the sentence. 1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. v. (1628) 148 In respect of Pope Gregory his alluding the name of Engelisce vnto Angellike. Ibid. v. 141 The reuerent Father perceiuing this name to alude vnto the name of Angeli. 1607Topsell Four-footed Beasts 117 Gray-hounds..called Windspill, alluding to compare their swiftness with the winde.
†3. To refer by the play of fancy.
a. trans. To refer (a thing) fancifully or figuratively, to compare symbolically, to (something else).
b. intr. To have a fanciful or figurative reference, to correspond in a figure, to (something else). Obs.
1596Harington Ulysses upon Ajax (1814) 70 Now, to allude this, Philaretes, in this sort conceit me. 1613T. Adams Pract. Wks. (1861) II. 10 (D.) Some have alluded these three, gold, myrrh, and frankincense, to..faith, hope, and charity. 1630Taylor (Water P.) Wks. (N.) Ile at last allude her to a water-man. 1647Crashaw Poems 209 Hills and relentless rocks, or if there be Things that in hardness more allude to thee. 1655[See alluding a.] 1665Wither Lord's Prayer 133 The holy Ghost alludes not our most wise Creator to a foolish Potter.
4. intr. To have an oblique, covert, or indirect reference, to point as it were in passing.
1533More Apol. viii. Wks. 1557, 860/1 These wordes..allude vnto certaine woordes of Tyndall. 1711Steele Spect. No. 11 ⁋1 Quotations which allude to the Perjuries of the Fair. 1713― Englishm. No. 50. 319 The following Letter alludes to an Edition of a Discourse printed in Ireland. Mod. This expression evidently alludes to some circumstance then well known but now forgotten.
5. intr. To make an indirect or passing reference, to glance at, refer indirectly to. (Often used ignorantly as = refer in its general sense.)
1574Whitgift Def. Answ. i. (1851) I. 162 In a family the master is above the servant..whereunto Christ himself alludeth. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 251 The Apostle expoundeth, and not only alludeth to these words. 1712Steele Spect. No. 510 ⁋3 He alludes to enterprises which he cannot reveal but with the hazard of his life. 1787Gilpin Tour Lakes (R.) The people of the country, alluding to the whiteness of its foam, call it sour-milk force. 1837J. Harris Gt. Teacher 307 He often alluded to his poverty. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iv. 291, I allude to my parents.
†6. trans. To refer (a thing) as applicable, appropriate, or belonging, to (as a saying to that to which it refers, a name to its owner, a thing to its author). Obs.
1607Topsell Four-footed Beasts 187 Men for honour of Bacchus, did dance upon certain Bottles made of Goats skins..whereunto Virgil alluded this saying; Mollibus in pratis unctos saliere per utres. 1634T. Herbert Trav. 137 Ninus..built Ninive, though some allude it to Assur.
†7. trans. (with obj., inf., or subord. clause). To throw out by the way, to hint, suggest. Obs.
1547J. Heywood Wit & Folly 12, I glanset at payne of mynd, allewdyng That payne to be most payne. 1587Holinshed Chron. III. 851/1 The king of Spaine alluded with good right, that the empire apperteined to him. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iii. vii. 285 To excuse this unexperienced Notion..they allude these ensuing Apologies. |