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illusio

illusio · f

a mocking

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Where it lives

Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4 · 0.57/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

illūsĭo — Lewis & Short

illūsĭo (inl-), ōnis, f.illudo,

I a mocking, jeering; irony, a figure of speech, = derisio, insultatio, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 202; also ap. Quint. 9, 1, 28; cf. id. 8, 6, 54.—

II An illusion, deceit (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Psa. 37, 7; Isa. 66, 4.

In the wild

inlusio Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1.27.p26
inlusio Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1.27.p26
inlusio Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1.27.p26
illusionem Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.6.54
inlusio Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1.27.p26
illusio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.1.28

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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