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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.]
   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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   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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   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.
   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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   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 (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.
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