Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Mocked"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Mock \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.

To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep
mocked death. --Shak.

Mocking marriage with a dame of France. --Shak.

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 expectation.

Thou 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}.

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