illude

English

Etymology

From Latin illūdō.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈluːd/, /ɪˈljuːd/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪˈluːd/
• Rhymes: -uːd
• Homophones: allude, elude (weak vowel merger)

Verb

illude (third-person singular simple present illudes, present participle illuding, simple past and past participle illuded)

1. (literary) To give a false impression to.

   Synonyms: deceive, delude, dupe, fool, mislead, trick

   • 1547, Catherine Parr, The Lamentation of a Sinner,‎^[1]:

     The fleshly children of Adam bee so politicke, subtil, craftie, and wise, in theyre kynde, that the electe should be illuded if it were possible:

   • 1611, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World‎^[2], London: Samuel Macham:

     Tis now but wicked vanity to thinke,
     To color vitious deeds with good pretence,
     Or with bought colors to illude mens sense.

   • 1786, William Gilpin, Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772‎^[3], London: R. Blamire, Vol. 1, Section 6, p. 86:

     The lines and shapes of mountains (features strongly marked) are easily caught and retained: but these meteor-forms, this rich fluctuation of airy hues, offer such a profusion of variegated splendor, that they are continually illuding the eye with breaking into each other; and are lost, as it endeavours to retain them.

   • 1873, Henry Coppée, chapter 26, in English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History‎^[4], Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, page 269:

     His [Jonathan Swift’s] versatile pen was prolific […] of fiction erected of impossible materials, and yet so creating and peopling a world of fancy as to illude the reader into temporary belief in its truth.

   • 1984, Oliver Sacks, chapter 2, in A Leg to Stand On‎^[5], New York: Summit Books, page 69:

     I had a sudden sense of mismatch, of profound incongruity—between what I imagined I felt and what I actually saw, between what I had thought and what I now found. I felt, for a dizzying, vertiginous moment, that I had been profoundly deceived, illuded, by my senses: an illusion—such an illusion—as I had never before known.

Related terms

• allude
• delude
• elude
• illusion
• illusive
• illusory

 

Translations

to delude, fool

• Bulgarian: измамвам (bg) (izmamvam), заблуждавам (bg) (zabluždavam)
• Spanish: iludir (es)

Anagrams

• diuell

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ilˈlu.de/
• Rhymes: -ude
• Hyphenation: il‧lù‧de

Verb

illude

1. third-person singular present indicative of illudere

Anagrams

• duelli

Latin

Verb

illūde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of illūdō