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English
Etymology
From be- + mock.
Verb
bemock (third-person singular simple present bemocks, present participle bemocking, simple past and past participle bemocked)
- (archaic) To ridicule or mock.
- (transitive) To mock repeatedly; flout.
- (transitive) To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.
- (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 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.
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