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Webster 1913 Edition
Mock
Mock
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Mocked
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Mocking
.] [F.
moquer
, of uncertain origin; cf. OD. mocken
to mumble, G. mucken
, OSw. mucka
.] 1.
To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
To see the life as lively
Still sleep
mocked
as everStill sleep
mocked
death. Shakespeare
Mocking
marriage with a dame of France. Shakespeare
2.
To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.
Elijah
mocked
them, and said, Cry aloud. 1 Kings xviii. 27.
Let not ambition
mock
their useful toil. Gray.
3.
To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize;
as, to
. mock
expectationThou hast
mocked
me, and told me lies. Judg. xvi. 13.
He will not . . .
Mock
us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence. Milton.
Syn. – To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint. See
Deride
. Mock
,Verb.
I.
To make sport in contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.
When thou
mockest
, shall no man make thee ashamed? Job xi. 3.
She had
mocked
at his proposal. Froude.
Mock
,Noun.
1.
An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
Fools make a
mock
at sin. Prov. xiv. 9.
2.
Imitation; mimicry.
[R.]
Crashaw.
Mock
,Adj.
Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.
That superior greatness and
mock
majesty. Spectator.
Mock bishop’s weed
(Bot.)
, a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs (
– Discopleura
) growing in wet places. Mock heroic
, burlesquing the heroic;
– as, a
. mock heroic
poemMock lead
. See
– Blende
(a
). Mock nightingale
(Zool.)
, the European blackcap.
– Mock orange
(Bot.)
, a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (
– Philadelphus
), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. Philadelphus coronarius
, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless. Mock sun
. See
– Parhelion
. Mock turtle soup
, a soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle soup.
– Mock velvet
, a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See
Mockado
.Webster 1828 Edition
Mock
MOCK
,Verb.
T.
1.
Properly, to imitate; to mimick; hence, to imitate in contempt or derision; to mimick for the sake of derision; to deride by mimicry.2.
To deride; to laugh at; to ridicule; to treat with scorn or contempt. As he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, saying, go up, thou bald head. 2 Kings 2. Mark 10.
3.
To defeat; to illude; to disappoint; to deceive; as, to mock expectation. Thou hast mocked me and told me lies. Judg.16.
4.
To fool; to tantalize; to play on in contempt. He will not
Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.
MOCK
,Verb.
I.
When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? Job.11.
MOCK
,Noun.
Fools make a mock at sin. Prov.14.
What shall be the portion of those who make a mock at every thing sacred?
1.
Imitation; mimicry. [Little used.]MOCK
,Adj.
That superior greatness and mock majesty--