How interesting that we only see the word “allude” in one chapter! This word uses the Latin prefix ad- ludere, “to play at” someone, “to imitate or mock”, and eventually as we use it, “to refer”.
- 10.003 alluding to him chiefly with a curse
- 10.036 no songs had alluded to him even
“allude, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 18 May 2015.