illude

illude

(ɪˈluːd)
vb
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) literary to trick or deceive
[C15: from Latin illūdere to sport with, from lūdus game]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

il•lude

(ɪˈlud)
v.t. -lud•ed, -lud•ing.
1. to deceive or trick.
2. Obs.
a. to mock or ridicule.
b. to evade.
[1445–50; Middle English < Latin illūdere to mock, ridicule; see illusion]
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illude


Past participle: illuded
Gerund: illuding

Imperative
illude
illude
Present
I illude
you illude
he/she/it illudes
we illude
you illude
they illude
Preterite
I illuded
you illuded
he/she/it illuded
we illuded
you illuded
they illuded
Present Continuous
I am illuding
you are illuding
he/she/it is illuding
we are illuding
you are illuding
they are illuding
Present Perfect
I have illuded
you have illuded
he/she/it has illuded
we have illuded
you have illuded
they have illuded
Past Continuous
I was illuding
you were illuding
he/she/it was illuding
we were illuding
you were illuding
they were illuding
Past Perfect
I had illuded
you had illuded
he/she/it had illuded
we had illuded
you had illuded
they had illuded
Future
I will illude
you will illude
he/she/it will illude
we will illude
you will illude
they will illude
Future Perfect
I will have illuded
you will have illuded
he/she/it will have illuded
we will have illuded
you will have illuded
they will have illuded
Future Continuous
I will be illuding
you will be illuding
he/she/it will be illuding
we will be illuding
you will be illuding
they will be illuding
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been illuding
you have been illuding
he/she/it has been illuding
we have been illuding
you have been illuding
they have been illuding
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been illuding
you will have been illuding
he/she/it will have been illuding
we will have been illuding
you will have been illuding
they will have been illuding
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been illuding
you had been illuding
he/she/it had been illuding
we had been illuding
you had been illuding
they had been illuding
Conditional
I would illude
you would illude
he/she/it would illude
we would illude
you would illude
they would illude
Past Conditional
I would have illuded
you would have illuded
he/she/it would have illuded
we would have illuded
you would have illuded
they would have illuded
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Not even "le grand Gustave" could ultimately illude [sic] himself as a formative power in his work--not after the pain of a lifetime directed to no other end.
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As Ed Cohen writes, "Basil's portrait of Dorian can embody his desire for the eponymous character, and yet a male homoerotic passion remains, in the dominant representational codes of the period, peccatum illude horribile non nominandum inter christanos--or, in a bad paraphrase of Lord Alfred Douglas, a love whose name the text dare not speak" (811).