Illude

Quick meaning: Illude is a verb meaning (literary) To give a false impression to.

Meaning

(literary) To give a false impression to.

Example Sentences

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

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:

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.

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.

Word Forms

• illudes
• illuding
• illuded

Synonyms for illude

Depending on context, synonyms include deceive, delude, dupe, fool, mislead, trick.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mislead, deceive, fake out, misinform, misreveal, mislight.

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