allusionn.

Brit.

/əˈl(j)uːʒn/, U.S.

/əˈluʒ(ə)n/,

/æˈluʒ(ə)n/

Forms: 1500s allution, 1500s– allusion.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin allusion-, allusio.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin allusion-, allusio game (4th cent.), play on words (6th cent.) < classical Latin allūs- , past participial stem of allūdere allude v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French alucion , Middle French, French allusion (c1437 in sense ‘pretext’ in an apparently isolated attestation, 1574 in the now obsolete sense ‘play on words, pun’, 1593 in sense ‘implied, indirect, or passing reference to a person or thing’), Spanish alusión (1499), Italian allusione (1576). Compare slightly earlier alluding n.Sense 4 probably arose by confusion with illusion n. In to make allusion to perhaps after French faire allusion à (1615 or earlier).

1. An implied, indirect, or passing reference to a person or thing; (in later use more widely) any reference to someone or something. Also: the action or process of making such a reference. Chiefly with to. Cf. allude v. 2a, reference n. 3a, 3b.Cf. usage note at allude v. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [noun] > allusiveness > allusion

allusion1542

society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > [noun]

feelc1485

inkling1529

intimation1531

insinuation1532

by-warning1542

byword1542

item1561

cue1565

air1567

vent1613

insusurration1614

hinta1616

injection1622

indication1626

infusion1641

side glance1693

ground bass1699

touch1706

side view1747

sidewipe1757

allusion1766

penumbra1770

breath1795

slyness1823

by-hint1853

light1854

shove1857

suggestion1863

sous-entendu1865

point1870

sidewiper1870

sniff1936

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 188^v As for the allusion y^t he made [L. allusit], was to a place of Homere in the fifthe volume of his werke entitleed Ilias.

1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion To Rdr. sig. A 2 The Verse oft, with allusion, as supposing a full knowing Reader, lets slip.

1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 95 With more special allusion and application to the water of Baptism.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 140 Those frequent allusions made to them in the word of God.

1766 Sir A. Mitchell in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 499 His..Majesty smiling, said, I understand your allusion.

1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ I. i. 5 The frequent allusions to the incidents of his private life.

1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 214 To which some allusion has been made in a preceding page.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 730 A very intelligible allusion to the compromise proposed by France.

1908 E. F. Benson Climber 3 An elderly and discreet man-servant, Don Whiskers, to whom allusion has been made, came into the room.

1946 C. Beaton Diary Apr. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xvi. 180 She does not relish allusion to her film career, and I must try to avoid the subject.

1979 W. Styron Sophie's Choice xi. 304 The vaguest allusion to him on my part caused her eyes to shadow over in grief.

2008 New Yorker 13 Oct. 127 ‘Not cats falling out of trees, but really good,’ Meyers said. The allusion, to a viral video, caused Huffington's face to crinkle with glee.

†2. A symbolic reference or likening; a metaphor, a parable, an allegory. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > allegory > an allegory

likenessc1175

parablec1250

proverbc1384

similitudea1425

allegoryc1450

semblable1547

allusion1548

mythology1603

parabolic1829

1548 N. Udall in N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. New Test. I. Luke Pref. (R.) By reason of sundry allusions, diuers prouerbes, many figures.

1562 in tr. Damiano da Odemira Pleasaunt Playe of Cheasts To Rdr. sig. A.i^v This game hath a certaine allusion or similitude of a ranged battel, as by order in placing the men and setting them forth in their marche, it maye easely appeare.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Allusion, an allusion, or likening; an alluding, or applying of one thing unto another.

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes To Rdr. sig. A3 To see the allusion to our blessed Saviour figured, in these Types.

1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 117 By a sutable allusion the nutriment is taken for the life of man.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. iii. 61 Virtue, to borrow the Christian Allusion, is militant Here.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. 67 If he had pursued the allusion, he must have painted many of the Gallic nobles with the hundred heads of the deadly Hydra.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Peel, to strip: allusion to the taking off the coat or rind of an orange or apple.

3. A play on words, a pun; (also) the action of punning. Now rare.In later use with admixture of sense 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > play on words, pun

allusion1550

nick1561

paronomasia1577

paronomasy1592

quiblin1605

quibblea1627

quiblet1627

clinch1629

quibbling1633

clink1634

clench1638

pun1644

conundrum1645

whim1652

pundigrion1673

jeu de mots1823

calembour1830

Tom Swifty1963

paronym1982

1550 T. Cranmer Def. Sacrament f. 83 Chrysostomes maner of speaking (how in all his writinges hee is full of allusions, schemes, tropes and figures).

1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 473 The battail (in memorie that they threw away their coates,..) was called by allusion Losecoatefield.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 25 ‘As they did not like,’ etc. Here is an elegant Paronomasia or allusion on the words εδοκιμασαω and αδοκιμον.

1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Allusion, a dalliance or playing with words alike in sound but unlike in sense.

1773 S. Johnson Note on Love's Labour's Lost v. ii, in S. Johnson & G. Steevens Plays of Shakespeare (rev. ed.) II. 455 I fancy that novum should be novem, and that some allusion is intended between the play of nine pins and the play of the nine worthies.

1822 Palaeoromaica iv. 208 Our Lord's seeming play upon words, Thou art Peter, and upon this rock..is in English devoid of meaning, while in French, Thou art pierre, and upon this pierre..the allusion is perfectly preserved.

1828 F. E. J. Valpy Etymol. Dict. Lat. Lang. 16/1 Some refer Adolescens to ἀδολεσχῶν, ‘fond of chit-chat.’ This is not a derivation, but an Allusion.

1961 M. Esslin Theatre of Absurd i. 16 Yet the name Godot may also be an even more recondite literary allusion... There is a character in a play by Balzac..called Godeau.

†4. Illusion; an instance of this. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [noun] > an instance of, illusion

wielOE

illusionc1374

phantoma1375

delusion1552

allusion1595

blandation1612

prestigy1615

mirage1813

1595 T. Edwards Cephalvs & Procris sig. G^v On this cleere-spring where as a man distract, The more I sought allusions forth to raze, The more I found my senses in defact.

1618 Hist. P. Warbeck in Harl. Misc. (1793) 59 Resolved in the error of his allusion, he strongly conjectured that [etc.].

Compounds

allusion book n. a collection of references to a writer or his or her works.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > book having connection with someone

allusion book1874

association copy1882

1874 C. M. Ingleby Shakspere Allusion-bks. i. p. i A Section of our Reprints appears under the title of Allusion-Books. By this term we intend to cover not only those books which afford some allusion, or indirect reference, to Shakspere or to a work of his, but also those which directly deal with either: i.e. which mention him by name as the author of such and such a play, or as a poet worthy of praise or of blame.

1939 H. Macdonald Dryden Bibliogr. Pref. p. viii This book is therefore an allusion book as well as a bibliography.

1986 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 22 Mar. d1 A 1637 Allusion Book mentions ‘stew'd in the ranke lust of a lascivious worm’.

1995 Z. Bowen Bloom's Old Sweet Song 5 I owed a great deal to a number of people with regard to the Sirens publication and the allusion book it represents.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	allusion
释义	allusionn. Brit. /əˈl(j)uːʒn/, U.S. /əˈluʒ(ə)n/, /æˈluʒ(ə)n/ Forms: 1500s allution, 1500s– allusion. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin allusion-, allusio. Etymology: < post-classical Latin allusion-, allusio game (4th cent.), play on words (6th cent.) < classical Latin allūs- , past participial stem of allūdere allude v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French alucion , Middle French, French allusion (c1437 in sense ‘pretext’ in an apparently isolated attestation, 1574 in the now obsolete sense ‘play on words, pun’, 1593 in sense ‘implied, indirect, or passing reference to a person or thing’), Spanish alusión (1499), Italian allusione (1576). Compare slightly earlier alluding n.Sense 4 probably arose by confusion with illusion n. In to make allusion to perhaps after French faire allusion à (1615 or earlier). 1. An implied, indirect, or passing reference to a person or thing; (in later use more widely) any reference to someone or something. Also: the action or process of making such a reference. Chiefly with to. Cf. allude v. 2a, reference n. 3a, 3b.Cf. usage note at allude v. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [noun] > allusiveness > allusion allusion1542 society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > [noun] feelc1485 inkling1529 intimation1531 insinuation1532 by-warning1542 byword1542 item1561 cue1565 air1567 vent1613 insusurration1614 hinta1616 injection1622 indication1626 infusion1641 side glance1693 ground bass1699 touch1706 side view1747 sidewipe1757 allusion1766 penumbra1770 breath1795 slyness1823 by-hint1853 light1854 shove1857 suggestion1863 sous-entendu1865 point1870 sidewiper1870 sniff1936 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 188^v As for the allusion y^t he made [L. allusit], was to a place of Homere in the fifthe volume of his werke entitleed Ilias. 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion To Rdr. sig. A 2 The Verse oft, with allusion, as supposing a full knowing Reader, lets slip. 1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 95 With more special allusion and application to the water of Baptism. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 140 Those frequent allusions made to them in the word of God. 1766 Sir A. Mitchell in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 499 His..Majesty smiling, said, I understand your allusion. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ I. i. 5 The frequent allusions to the incidents of his private life. 1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 214 To which some allusion has been made in a preceding page. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 730 A very intelligible allusion to the compromise proposed by France. 1908 E. F. Benson Climber 3 An elderly and discreet man-servant, Don Whiskers, to whom allusion has been made, came into the room. 1946 C. Beaton Diary Apr. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xvi. 180 She does not relish allusion to her film career, and I must try to avoid the subject. 1979 W. Styron Sophie's Choice xi. 304 The vaguest allusion to him on my part caused her eyes to shadow over in grief. 2008 New Yorker 13 Oct. 127 ‘Not cats falling out of trees, but really good,’ Meyers said. The allusion, to a viral video, caused Huffington's face to crinkle with glee. †2. A symbolic reference or likening; a metaphor, a parable, an allegory. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > allegory > an allegory likenessc1175 parablec1250 proverbc1384 similitudea1425 allegoryc1450 semblable1547 allusion1548 mythology1603 parabolic1829 1548 N. Udall in N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. New Test. I. Luke Pref. (R.) By reason of sundry allusions, diuers prouerbes, many figures. 1562 in tr. Damiano da Odemira Pleasaunt Playe of Cheasts To Rdr. sig. A.i^v This game hath a certaine allusion or similitude of a ranged battel, as by order in placing the men and setting them forth in their marche, it maye easely appeare. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Allusion, an allusion, or likening; an alluding, or applying of one thing unto another. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes To Rdr. sig. A3 To see the allusion to our blessed Saviour figured, in these Types. 1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 117 By a sutable allusion the nutriment is taken for the life of man. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. iii. 61 Virtue, to borrow the Christian Allusion, is militant Here. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. 67 If he had pursued the allusion, he must have painted many of the Gallic nobles with the hundred heads of the deadly Hydra. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Peel, to strip: allusion to the taking off the coat or rind of an orange or apple. 3. A play on words, a pun; (also) the action of punning. Now rare.In later use with admixture of sense 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > play on words, pun allusion1550 nick1561 paronomasia1577 paronomasy1592 quiblin1605 quibblea1627 quiblet1627 clinch1629 quibbling1633 clink1634 clench1638 pun1644 conundrum1645 whim1652 pundigrion1673 jeu de mots1823 calembour1830 Tom Swifty1963 paronym1982 1550 T. Cranmer Def. Sacrament f. 83 Chrysostomes maner of speaking (how in all his writinges hee is full of allusions, schemes, tropes and figures). 1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 473 The battail (in memorie that they threw away their coates,..) was called by allusion Losecoatefield. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 25 ‘As they did not like,’ etc. Here is an elegant Paronomasia or allusion on the words εδοκιμασαω and αδοκιμον. 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Allusion, a dalliance or playing with words alike in sound but unlike in sense. 1773 S. Johnson Note on Love's Labour's Lost v. ii, in S. Johnson & G. Steevens Plays of Shakespeare (rev. ed.) II. 455 I fancy that novum should be novem, and that some allusion is intended between the play of nine pins and the play of the nine worthies. 1822 Palaeoromaica iv. 208 Our Lord's seeming play upon words, Thou art Peter, and upon this rock..is in English devoid of meaning, while in French, Thou art pierre, and upon this pierre..the allusion is perfectly preserved. 1828 F. E. J. Valpy Etymol. Dict. Lat. Lang. 16/1 Some refer Adolescens to ἀδολεσχῶν, ‘fond of chit-chat.’ This is not a derivation, but an Allusion. 1961 M. Esslin Theatre of Absurd i. 16 Yet the name Godot may also be an even more recondite literary allusion... There is a character in a play by Balzac..called Godeau. †4. Illusion; an instance of this. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [noun] > an instance of, illusion wielOE illusionc1374 phantoma1375 delusion1552 allusion1595 blandation1612 prestigy1615 mirage1813 1595 T. Edwards Cephalvs & Procris sig. G^v On this cleere-spring where as a man distract, The more I sought allusions forth to raze, The more I found my senses in defact. 1618 Hist. P. Warbeck in Harl. Misc. (1793) 59 Resolved in the error of his allusion, he strongly conjectured that [etc.]. Compounds allusion book n. a collection of references to a writer or his or her works. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > book having connection with someone allusion book1874 association copy1882 1874 C. M. Ingleby Shakspere Allusion-bks. i. p. i A Section of our Reprints appears under the title of Allusion-Books. By this term we intend to cover not only those books which afford some allusion, or indirect reference, to Shakspere or to a work of his, but also those which directly deal with either: i.e. which mention him by name as the author of such and such a play, or as a poet worthy of praise or of blame. 1939 H. Macdonald Dryden Bibliogr. Pref. p. viii This book is therefore an allusion book as well as a bibliography. 1986 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 22 Mar. d1 A 1637 Allusion Book mentions ‘stew'd in the ranke lust of a lascivious worm’. 1995 Z. Bowen Bloom's Old Sweet Song 5 I owed a great deal to a number of people with regard to the Sirens publication and the allusion book it represents. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1542
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