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Definition of Illusionary
1. Adjective. Marked by or producing illusion. "Illusionary stage effects"
Similar to: Unreal
Derivative terms: Illusion, Illusion, Illusion, Illusion
Definition of Illusionary
1. Adjective. Illusory; pertaining to an illusion, or of the nature of an illusion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Illusionary
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Illusionary
Literary usage of Illusionary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mystery of Space: A Study of the Hyperspace Movement in the Light of the by Robert T. Browne (1919)
"... Intellectual Notions—The Tuitional and the Intuitional Faculties—The Illusionary
Character of the Phenomenal—Consciousness and the Degrees of Realism. ..."
2. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"The great Hindoo or Brahmin philosophers held to the illusionary character of
this world of phenomena and of the dream-life lived by what they called the ..."
3. The Deeper Mysteries by Edward Clarence Farnsworth (1921)
"On the other hand, the usual teaching makes man a triad of real and imperishable
higher principles which reflect themselves downward as an illusionary triad ..."
4. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1897)
"... human beings to salvation by teaching them to practise the greatest purity
and virtue, and by detaching them from the service of this illusionary world, ..."
5. Pillory and Witness-box by Ferdinand Hansen (1920)
"trained gladiator for the right, their missioner of a new world-dispensation,
their prophet of an illusionary democracy. He was to teach a bankrupt, ..."
6. A Treatise on Materia Medica (including Therapeutics and Toxicology) by Hermann Nothnagel, Michael Joseph Rossbach (1883)
"In haemoptysis its utility is entirely illusionary. ... This is only illusionary.
3. Charta Nitrata—Paper impregnated with saltpeter—strips of this are ..."
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