bemock

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ mock.

Verb

bemock (third-person singular simple present bemocks, present participle bemocking, simple past and past participle bemocked)

1. (archaic) To ridicule or mock.
2. (transitive) To mock repeatedly; flout.
3. (transitive) To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.
4. (transitive, archaic) To make up as something else, to make into an imitation or semblance
   • 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 215:

     thought could not divide
     The actual world from these entangling evils,
     Which so bemocked themselves, that I descried
     All shapes like mine own self, hideously multiplied.

Translations

mock — see mock

Anagrams

• Beckom