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illusory, a.|ɪˈl(j)uːsərɪ| [ad. late L. illūsōri-us of a mocking character, ironical, f. illūsor: see prec. and -ory. Cf. F. illusoire.] Having the quality of illuding or tending to deceive by unreal prospects; of the nature of an illusion; illusive. In first quot. as n. = an illusory or illusive thing; an illusion.
1599Queen Elizabeth Let. (N.), To trust him uppon pledges is a meare illusorye. a1631Donne in Select. (1840) 79 A false, an illusory, and a sinful comfort. a1691Boyle Refl. Theol. Distinction §2 It is not an arbitrary or illusory distinction. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 25 The illusory offspring of the imagination. 1866J. Martineau Ess. I. 256 The promise is for the present illusory. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xxv. 621 The price given..is illusory. 1883Froude Short Stud. IV. iii. 256 Much illusory physiology was based on this hypothesis. Hence iˈllusorily adv., in an illusory manner, by an illusion; iˈllusoriness, deceptiveness of appearance.
a1631Donne Six Serm. i. (1634) 32 That that Pilate did illusorily..wash his hands from the bloud of any of those men. 1727Bailey vol. II, Illusoriness. 1869Farrar Fam. Speech iii. (1873) 88 The utter illusoriness of the accidental resemblances in the unborrowed words. 1880J. Caird Philos. Relig. v. 136 This very feeling of the instability and illusoriness of the world. 1898Westm. Gaz. 1 Sept. 2/1 The way in front was illusorily barred by swiftly flowing water. |