illude

1. (literary) To give a false impression to.Examples: "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:"; "Tis now but wicked vanity to thinke, To color vitious deeds with good pretence, Or with bought colors to illude mens sense."; "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."Synonyms: deceive, delude, dupe, fool, mislead, trickliterary