Both Uses of
allude
in
The Purloined Letter
- The boy to whom I allude won all the marbles of the school.
*allude = indirectly reference
- The mathematicians, I grant you, have done their best to promulgate the popular error to which you allude, and which is none the less an error for its promulgation as truth.†
Definition:
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(allude) to make an indirect referenceeditor's notes: The expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.