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Definition of Allude
1. Verb. Make a more or less disguised reference to. "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it"
Generic synonyms: Hint, Suggest
Entails: Denote, Refer
Related verbs: Bear On, Come To, Concern, Have-to Doe With, Pertain, Refer, Relate, Touch, Touch On
Derivative terms: Allusion, Allusive
Definition of Allude
1. v. i. To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction.
2. v. t. To compare allusively; to refer (something) as applicable.
Definition of Allude
1. Verb. (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Allude
1. to make an indirect reference [v -LUDED, -LUDING, -LUDES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allude
Literary usage of Allude
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"... 1 allude, relates to the tithes. Under that word I mean to speak of all that
mass of wealth which is vulgarly called Church property ; but which is, ..."
2. Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1885)
"... I allude, relates to the tithes. Under that word I mean to speak of all that
mass of wealth which is vulgarly called Church property ; but which is, ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1894)
"I do not allude to the analytical balance only. The assay, prescription, or pulp
balance, often has this important improvement wanting. ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Modesty was characteristic of him, and he never was first to allude to his writings.
In his shyness he has been compared to Hawthorne. ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1871)
"... need only allude to the important bearing this question has in reference to
many cases of life insurance. ART. IX.—Axillary Aneurism ; Ligation of Hie ..."
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