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collude, v.|kəˈl(j)uːd|
[ad. L. collūd-ĕre to play with, act collusively, f. col- + lūdĕre to play.]
1. intr. To act in secret concert with, chiefly in order to trick or baffle some third person or party; to play into one another's hands; to conspire, plot, connive; to play false; to act in play merely.
1525Aberd. Reg. V. 15 (Jam.) Bot quhar he hes colludit with vderis. 1537Inst. Chr. Man H ij b, He attayned the most part therof by..crafte, and specially by colludyng with great kynges. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 770 There is no doubt to be made, but that Epicurus Colluded in all this; himself not Believing a jot of it, nor any such Gods at all. a1734North Exam iii. vii. §36 (1740) 529 The French sought to weaken the King by colluding with his factious Enemies. 1820Ann. Reg. Chron., 352 Bribes..offered them to collude in the evasion. 1884Sir C. E. Pollock in Law Rep. Q. B. Div. XII. 172 The defendant..did not collude with the plaintiffs.
†2. trans. To stir up or bring about by collusion. Obs.
a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II, II. 68 This war had been colluded and abetted. 1834Fraser's Mag. IX. 76 To collude and actuate a large portion of the moral and physical materials of the nation to mischief.
†3. To elude, evade by trickery. Obs.
1642T. Taylor God's Judgem. i. ii. xxi. 249 Compacting shall not infringe or collude the sacred Law. 1679T. Puller Moder. Ch. Eng. (1843) 122 Any loose sense [of oaths], that the taker by any evasion may collude the design of the law.
Hence coˈlluding vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1611Cotgr., Colludant, colluding, dealing by cousin. 1625Bp. R. Montagu Appello Cæs. 43 Time-serving colluding with the state. 1681H. More in Glanvill's Sadd. i. Postcr. (1726) 24 Some colluding Knave suborned by the Witch. |