bemock

present singular third person bemocks · participle present bemocking · participle past bemocked · past bemocked

1. archaicTo ridicule or mock.
2. transitiveTo mock repeatedly; flout.
3. transitiveTo cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.
4. archaictransitiveTo make up as something else, to make into an imitation or semblance

   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.

   1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 215