ablude

From Latin ablūdō (“differ from”), from ab (“from”) + lūdō (“play; trick”).

• IPA^(key): /əˈbluːd/

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• Rhymes: -uːd

ablude (third-person singular simple present abludes, present participle abluding, simple past and past participle abluded)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To be unlike; to differ.
   • 1619, Joseph Hall, Via media, The Way of Peace:

     Neither doth it much ablude from this, that our English divines at Dort call the decree of God, whereby he hath appointed in and by Christ to save those that repent, believe, and persevere, decretum annunciatum salutis omnibus, etc.

• See also Thesaurus:differ

• belaud

ablūde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ablūdō