Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To play upon; mock; deceive with false hopes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb literary to
delude ,fool
Etymologies
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Examples
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Time he had a reality check but that is likely to illude him as it has to date.
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Even tha basics of meaty things outside of chicken illude me.
chopped vegetable, watermelon and feta salad | smitten kitchen 2008
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If a man should promise to give a thousand pounds to a blind man upon condition that he will open his eyes and see, — which he knows well enough he cannot do, — were that promise to be supposed to come from a heart-pitying of his poverty, and not rather from a mind to illude and mock at his misery?
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967
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SECRET, because the secret was absolutely necessary to the preservation of their office, so do the Inquisitors in partibus falsify and illude without the least scruple of conscience, in order to put the people of this country off their guard.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson
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His versatile pen was prolific of poetry, sentimental and satirical; of political allegories of great potency, 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.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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That it could do none of these things would rob it of all power to illude you.
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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The longer we gaze, the more surely does the picture illude us and enthral us, steeping us in that tragedy of 'the fruitless crown and barren sceptre.'
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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For its power to illude, an art depends on its limitations.
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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Yes, it may be, if the solitariness of these rocks do not illude me.
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He will illude to such things again, knowing the economy is in a shambles.
Forbes.com: News Kenneth Rapoza 2011
Prolagus commented on the word illude
...Not accepted on "Words with friends" (Scrabble-like application for iPhone). :-(
February 17, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word illude
Oh! Is it my turn?
February 17, 2010
bilby commented on the word illude
Must be. I've never played.
February 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word illude
I confess I am terrible at Scrabble. I can't just play random words worth a zillion points like many do. My S.O. says it's because I look for pretty words instead. Which is flattering, but probably false.
February 17, 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word illude
When I play Scrabble with my friends, we keep all our tiles visible to everybody so that we can play cooperatively; scoring is based on subjective decisions about the prettiness of the word. Essential aim is to make the most interesting board possible.
February 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word illude
That's how it should be!
February 17, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word illude
I used to play a lot of Scrabble with graduate students in creative writing (poets). I had one friend who kept score by writing down each word played, rather than the word's worth. I had another friend who was always sharing strange new words found in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, but wasn't very good at finding places to play those words on the board.
When I started playing, I hated to keep score and searched for wonderful words only. But I've found that something interesting happens when you play for points. When you begin to strategize--memorizing the 2-letter words, holding on to the Q until there's a Triple Letter Score--suddenly the words become more interesting because of the context of how they're placed on the board. You begin to move from free verse into the realm of the.... Well, I was going to say sonnet, but I suppose it's more of an obsessive sestina (which Wordnik tells us is worth just 7 points, but which, if played using all the tiles in your rack, and then through a Triple Word Score, can be a thing of rare beauty).
February 17, 2010
bilby commented on the word illude
Sometimes ruzuzu scares me.
February 17, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word illude
*grins*
Thanks, bilby!
February 17, 2010
pterodactyl commented on the word illude
Ruzuzu, on a triple word score, would be worth 42 points. This means that she herself is a thing of rare beauty. It also means that she'll have trouble building up momentum.
February 18, 2010
reesetee commented on the word illude
Oh, no! Not during the Olympics!
February 18, 2010
bilby commented on the word illude
We could strap her to a sled and shove her down a mountain.
*is feeling helpful*
February 18, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word illude
Pterodactyl, thank you! I saw a horse on la playa today, after I ate some fresh pineapple. I did not ask to join the folks who were playing Scrabble at another table.
February 18, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word illude
I should note for those of you playing along at home that there are references here to Dara Torres, etc. See, e.g., 42.
March 1, 2015