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Mock (?), v. 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.
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To see the life as lively mocked as ever
Still sleep mocked death.
Shak.
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Mocking marriage with a dame of France.
Shak.
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2. To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.
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Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud.
1 Kings xviii. 27.
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Let not ambition mock their useful toil.
Gray.
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3. To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation.
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Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies.
Judg. xvi. 13.
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He will not . . .
Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.
Milton.
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Syn. -- To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint. See Deride.
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Mock, v. i. To make sport in contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.
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When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
Job xi. 3.
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She had mocked at his proposal.
Froude.
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Mock, n. 1. An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
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Fools make a mock at sin.
Prov. xiv. 9.
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2. Imitation; mimicry. [R.] Crashaw.
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Mock, a. Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.
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That superior greatness and mock majesty.
Spectator.
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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 poem. -- Mock lead. See Blende (a). -- Mock nightingale (Zo&ö;l.), 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.
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