1535 King Henry VIII in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1822) I. ii. App. liii. 208 Making him [sc. the Pope] a God, to the great deceit, alluding, and seducing of our subjects.

1564 J. Rastell Confut. Serm. M. Iuell f. 105^v It may be proued vnto you, all that which Innocentius would conclude, by the alluding vnto the sonn and moone, which God made at the beginnyng.

1589 E. Bunny Briefe Answer Quarrels R. P. 146 The sense also of diuers places of Scripture, which you..had corruptly set down, alledging it for the sense of the place, which was either but an alluding vnto it, or els not so good I had..amended.

1622 J. Brinsley Third Part True Watch vii. 84 This moreover seemeth evidently to be an allusion to the custome of men, who use to set a marke on such things... Or rather an alluding to the marking of the houses of his owne people in Egypt.

1657 J. Deacon Nayler's Blasphemies Discovered 19 Is not this an alluding unto an immediate enjoyment of heaven upon earth?

1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Allusion, an alluding, or speaking a thing in reference to another.

1732 J. Besse Def. Quakerism xv. 296 The Alluding to Water Baptism in this Place will not hold, since our Adversary must allow that Water Baptism doth not save all those to whom it is administred.

1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. vi. 302 Such a supposition justifies the explanation of Grey, as to the alluding in these words to a sepulchral inscription.

1821 J. Q. Adams Let. 27 July in Writings (1917) VII. 129 You admit that the sentiment was harsh, but you think the alluding to his illness might be excused because it was historical fact.

1859 D. H. Hill Crucifixion of Christ ix. 252 The natural alluding of Matthew to the laws and customs of the Jews.

1981 E. Goffman Forms of Talk 2 In talk about how individuals acted or will act, we can get by with a small repertoire of alludings and simulations.

2009 H. J. Carey Jesus' Cry from Cross ii. 38 (note) He is here resisting the temptation to dehumanize the process of allusion by firmly attributing the alluding to an author.

1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 40 Morgan..was made this Epitaph, alluding to his name in that alluding age.

1606 J. Reynolds Dolarnys Primerose (title page) Wherein is expressed the liuely passions of Zeale and Loue, with an alluding discourse to Valours ghost.

1610 E. Bolton Elements of Armories xxviii. sig. X2^v This common conceit made Manwood Lord chiefe Baron, call golden coyne..by an alluding by-name Ruddocks.

a1745 J. Swift Poems (1937) I. 162 Whilst an alluding Hymn some Artist sings, We toast Confusion to the Race of Kings.

1815 Encycl. Londinensis XIII. 111/2 The Sun, the Rising Sun, owes its blazing appearance on sign-posts to the alluding motto, which was generally, ‘The best drink (under the Sun)’.

1989 R. Alter Pleasures of Reading iv. 132 Ziva Ben-Porat calls this kind of allusion ‘metonymic’ because there is extensive contiguity between the world of the alluding text and the evoked one, in contradistinction to other kinds of allusion.

2005 J. Walser Nāgārjuna in Context 167 In a case of literary allusion, an alluding text contains a particular sign.