Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To mock repeatedly; flout.
  • To cause to appear mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To mock; to ridicule.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb archaic To ridicule or mock.
  • verb transitive To mock repeatedly; flout.
  • verb transitive To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.

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  • verb treat with contempt

Etymologies

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From be- +‎ mock.

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Examples

  • I began to understand what an annoyance it must be to have a bough up there that you couldn't flick at with your stick as you passed by, and that even when weighed down by its summer greenery would bemock you if you made a casual clutch at its foliage, and laugh at you in its leaves.

    Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

  • The Suitors bemock the prophet, who leaves the company with another fateful vision:

    Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

  • His sides bemock the bending charms of waving Tamarisk, [FN#438] *

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • In the void imbroglios of Chaos only, and realms of Bedlam, does some shadow of it hover, to bewilder and bemock the poor inhabitants _there.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Bedlam, does some shadow of it hover, to bewilder and bemock the poor inhabitants _there_.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • But he lay still, and the King's Son answered the Lady and said: "I know not what is in thine heart concerning this runagate, that thou shouldst bemock me with his valiancy, whereof thou knowest nought.

    Wood Beyond the World William Morris 1865

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  • Cult members once loved how he talked

    But now for his gaffes he's bemocked.

    His status, once clerical,

    Is changed to chimerical.

    The high priest of con is defrocked.

    May 20, 2017