allude
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˈluːd/
allude (alludes, present participle alluding; past and past participle alluded)
- (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.
- 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity ↗, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523:
- These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.
- 1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474 ↗
- It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.
- 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity ↗, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523:
- See also Thesaurus:allude
- French: alluder, faire allusion, suggérer
- German: andeuten, erwähnen
- Italian: alludere
- Portuguese: aludir
- Russian: намека́ть
- Spanish: aludir, referirse
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