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Illusive — Il*lu sive, a. [See {Illude}.] Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal. [1913 Webster] Truth from illusive falsehood to command. Thomson. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
illusive — index deceptive, delusive, fallacious, fictitious, illusory, insubstantial, ostensible, specious, subtle … Law dictionary
illusive — (adj.) deceptive, illusory, formed in English 1670s, from stem of ILLUSION (Cf. illusion) + IVE (Cf. ive); Cf. also ILLUSORY (Cf. illusory) … Etymology dictionary
illusive — illusive, illusory see elusive … Modern English usage
illusive — [i lo͞o′siv] adj. illusory; unreal illusively adv. illusiveness n … English World dictionary
illusive — illusory / illusive [adj] deceptive, false apparent, blue sky*, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, fake, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, hallucinatory, ideal, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible,… … New thesaurus
Illusive Sounds — Infobox record label name = Illusive Sounds founded = 2003 founder = Matt Gudinski / Adam Jankie genre = Hip hop country = Australia location = Albert Park, Victoria url = http://www.illusive.com.auIllusive Sounds is an independent Australian hip … Wikipedia
Illusive Arts Entertainment, LLC — Infobox Company company name = Illusive Arts Entertainment company company type = Privately held company slogan = We Have Munchkins in Our Pants foundation = 2004 by Anna Warren Boersig (Chief Operating Officer) key people = Ray Boersig, Greg… … Wikipedia
Illusive Tracks — Infobox Film name = Illusive Tracks caption = director = Peter Dalle producer = Patrick Ryborn writer = Peter Dalle starring = Peter Dalle Gösta Ekman Robert Gustafsson music = Adam Nordén cinematography = editing = distributor = Buena Vista… … Wikipedia
illusive conception — Also known as spectral illusion. The two terms were introduced as synonyms in 1847 by the British surgeon Walter Cooper Dendy (17941871), denoting a subclass of ghosts of the mind s eye , which itself constitutes a subclass of what Dendy calls … Dictionary of Hallucinations
