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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Illuded

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Illuding

[L.

illudere

illusum

; pref.

il-

in +

ludere

to play: cf. OF.

illuder

. See

To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.

Verb.

[L. illudo; in and ludo, to play. See Ludicrous.]

To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite hope and disappoint it.