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Definition of Allusive

Allusive
Allusive Al*lu"sive, a. 1. Figurative; symbolical. 2. Having reference to something not fully expressed; containing an allusion.

Meaning of Allusive from wikipedia

- language. In discussing the richly allusive poetry of Virgil's Georgics, R. F. Thomas distinguished six categories of allusive reference, which are applicable...
- The Allusions were an Australian rock group, which formed in late 1965. They released a self-titled studio album in January 1967 via EMI/Parlophone. Their...
- wrote of "the elegant fluency of a practised Lothario". Because of the allusive use the name sometimes is not capitalised. Look up lothario in Wiktionary...
- eclecticism in art. Allusion is not pastiche. A literary allusion may refer to another work, but it does not reiterate it. Allusion requires the audience...
- The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies is a collection of short stories written by Joyce Carol Oates. It was published in 1974 by Black Sparrow Press...
- Tories, and the character referred to as Flimnap is often interpreted as an allusion to Sir Robert Walpole, a British statesman and Whig politician who Swift...
- Edgar Allan Poe. Blues Traveler's 1995 hit "Run-Around" opens with an allusion to the opening line of "The Raven": "Once upon a midnight dreary". Lou...
- hold off their attackers. The surviving text is tantalisingly brief and allusive, but comparison with other references in Old English poetry, notably Beowulf...
- song at the Rolling Loud Miami, naming it "Wetty (Taylor Swift)". The allusive reference to singer Taylor Swift generated a number of discussion on social...
- designed to cater to younger demographics and religious skeptics via allusions to present-day social movements, with an emphasis on values such as inclusion...