Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of striking into or against something.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of dashing or striking against.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
dashing orstriking against.
Etymologies
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Latin illisio, from illidere, illisum, to strike against; prefix il- in + laedere to strike.
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Examples
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"Die Trim" is surely a very unfortunate illision indeed in this size-zero-aghast generation?
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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"Die Trim" is surely a very unfortunate illision indeed in this size-zero-aghast generation?
Archive 2007-02-04 2007
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You then start to see through the illision of the republican touted “good economy”.
Think Progress » Cavuto to Krugman: ‘You Are Lying To People’ 2006
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