illudeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ɪˈluːd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪˈluːd/, /ɪˈljuːd/
• 韻: -uːd
• 異形同音異義語: allude, elude (weak vowel merger)

動詞

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,‎:

     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, 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, 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, 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, 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.

使用する際の注意点

• Not to be confused with allude or elude.

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• diuell