deride

Definition of deride

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

(transitive)To laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly; to ridicule, to scorn.

“Cicero beeing Augur, derideth the Auguries, and blames men for letting their actions relie vpon the voyce of a Crovve or a Davve.”
“And the people ſtood beholding ⁊ the rulers alſo with them derided him [Jesus], ſaying, hee ſaued others, let him ſaue himſelfe, if he be Chriſt, yͤ choſen of God.”
“I knovv there be many baſe, impudent, and braſen-faced roagues, […] let them be proued, perjured, ſtigmatized, convict roagues, theeues, traitors, looſe their ears, be vvhipped, branded, carted, pointed at, hiſſed, reviled, and derided, vvith Ballio the baud in Plautus, they reioice at it, […]”
“And thou Gallant, that readeſt and derideſt this madneſſe of Faſhion, if thine eyes vvere not dazeled vvith lightneſſe (light I cannot call it) of ſelfe-reflected Vanitie, mighteſt ſee as Monſter-like faſhions at home, and a more faſhionly Monſter of thy ſelfe; […]”
“[H]ee [Noah] of thir vvicked vvayes / Shall them admoniſh, […] and ſhall returne / Of them derided, but of God obſervd / The one juſt Man alive; by his command / Shall build a vvondrous Ark, as thou beheldſt, / To ſave himſelf and houſhold from amidſt / A VVorld devote to univerſal rack.”

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verb

(transitive)To laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly; to ridicule, to scorn.

“Cicero beeing Augur, derideth the Auguries, and blames men for letting their actions relie vpon the voyce of a Crovve or a Davve.”
“And the people ſtood beholding ⁊ the rulers alſo with them derided him [Jesus], ſaying, hee ſaued others, let him ſaue himſelfe, if he be Chriſt, yͤ choſen of God.”
“I knovv there be many baſe, impudent, and braſen-faced roagues, […] let them be proued, perjured, ſtigmatized, convict roagues, theeues, traitors, looſe their ears, be vvhipped, branded, carted, pointed at, hiſſed, reviled, and derided, vvith Ballio the baud in Plautus, they reioice at it, […]”
“And thou Gallant, that readeſt and derideſt this madneſſe of Faſhion, if thine eyes vvere not dazeled vvith lightneſſe (light I cannot call it) of ſelfe-reflected Vanitie, mighteſt ſee as Monſter-like faſhions at home, and a more faſhionly Monſter of thy ſelfe; […]”
“[H]ee [Noah] of thir vvicked vvayes / Shall them admoniſh, […] and ſhall returne / Of them derided, but of God obſervd / The one juſt Man alive; by his command / Shall build a vvondrous Ark, as thou beheldſt, / To ſave himſelf and houſhold from amidſt / A VVorld devote to univerſal rack.”
(intransitive, obsolete)To laugh in a harshly mocking manner.

“Memorandum that about the year 1650 coffee and chocolate began to be frequently drunk in Oxon: and about 1655 a club was erected at Tilliard's where many pretended witts would meet and deride at others.”

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Etymology

PIE word *de Learned borrowing from Latin dērīdēre, the present active infinitive of dērīdeō (“to laugh at, make fun of, mock, deride”), from dē- (prefix denoting putting down or subjecting…

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PIE word *de Learned borrowing from Latin dērīdēre, the present active infinitive of dērīdeō (“to laugh at, make fun of, mock, deride”), from dē- (prefix denoting putting down or subjecting to indignity) + rīdeō (“to laugh; to laugh at, mock, ridicule”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate; to turn”) (referring to turning the mouth to smile) or *wreyd- (“to carve; to scratch”)). cognates * Old French dérider (rare), derire

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