Both Uses
allude
in
Ligeia
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- It might have been, too, that in these eyes of my beloved lay the secret to which Lord Verulam alludes.†
*alludes = makes an indirect reference
- She spoke again, and now more frequently and pertinaciously, of the sounds—of the slight sounds—and of the unusual motions among the tapestries, to which she had formerly alluded.†
alluded = indirectly referenced
Definitions:
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(1)
(allude) to make an indirect referenceThe expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)