Ablude

//əˈbluːd// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To be unlike; to differ. archaic, intransitive

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

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

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