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illude, v. Now rare.|ɪˈl(j)uːd| Also 6 illud. [ad. L. illūdĕre to make sport of, jest or mock at, ridicule, occas. to trick, impose upon, f. il- (il-1) + lūdĕre to play. Cf. obs. F. illuder (Godef.).] †1. trans. To mock, make sport of, deride. Obs.
1516Lyfe St. Birgette in Myrr. our Ladye (1873) Introd. 56 Where he was Illudyd, Crucyfyed and buryed. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 196 Nether wold I that ye should begyn to illud the trewth with sophistrie. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. ii. ii. 22 It illudes, or mocks the worshippers of these Idols. a1704T. Brown Sat. Antients Wks. 1730 I. 23 To refute or illude that which is opposed to him. 2. To trick, impose upon, deceive with false hopes.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 112 Illudyd by thi goddesse clepyd dyan. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John xx. 120 Supposyng them to be deceyued and illuded by some vision. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals iii. iii. 293 Full of hypocrisie and dissimulation, to lull and illude one another. 1872M. Collins Two Plunges for Pearl I. iii. 64 They had allowed their imaginations to illude them. absol.1836F. Mahoney Rel. Father Prout, Songs France iv. (1860) 294 None among us seeks to illude By empty boast of brotherhood. †b. To cheat out of (something). Obs.
1541Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 16 §1 Illuded and deceyved thereof. †3. To evade, elude. (In quot. 1820, absol.) Obs. In some instances there is prob. confusion with elude.
1553Brende Q. Curtins 21 (R.) [He] cutt with his sworde the cordes a sunder: therby either illuding, or else fulfiling theffect of the prophesie. 1599Broughton's Let. xiii. 44 One place in Plato excepted, which the Reuerend Father hath notably illuded. 1820Moir in Blackw. Mag. VII. 627 The magic rainbow..Receding, and illuding ever. Hence iˈlluded ppl. a.; iˈlluding vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1547Proclam. Hen. VIII in Burnet Hist. Ref. (1715) III. ii. 76 To the great Deceyte, illudyng and seducyng of our Subjects. 1577Fenton Gold. Epist. 192 Giuing no other credite to it than as a vision or illuding suggestion. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 62 To passe the time in vaine commendations of the labours of illuded antiquitie. 1696Lorimer Goodwin's Disc. vii. 136 An illuding and mocking of them. 1745Warton Pleas. Melanch. 185 The woodman's stroke, or distant tinkling team..alarms The illuded sense. 1887Athenæum 3 Dec. 745/1 They [women] come across unfavourable specimens of the illuding sex. |