illude

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For its power to illude, an art depends on its limitations.

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  1. To play upon; mock; deceive with false hopes. [Now rare.] Yes, quod he, sauynge that I take the bydding by scripture for the more sure. For there wot I well God speketh & I can not be illuded. Sir T. More, Works, p. 166. Sometimes athwart, sometimes he strook him strayt, And falsed oft his blowes, t' illude him with such bayt. Spenser, F. Q., II. v. 9. And of his lady too he doth reherse, How shee illudes with all the art she can Th' ungratefull love which other lords began. Sir J. Davies, Dancing.

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  • The answer is like alot of political failure regime the Hamas failed to care for his own people and misjudge the Israeli tolerance and restricted behavior like Nassralla they fall in love with the Iranian military support and illude them self that the can beat Israel - so stupid / so Arad —  Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
  • For its power to illude, an art depends on its limitations. —  Yet Again
  • That it could do none of these things would rob it of all power to illude you. —  Yet Again
  • 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
  • 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
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  1. from Old French illuder = Portuguese illudir = Italian illudere, from Latin illudere, inludere, play with, sport or jest with, scoff at, mock, deceive, from in, in, on, + ludere, play; cf. allude, collude, delude, clude.
 

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