bemock
verbEtymology From be- + mock.
1
Archaic To ridicule or mock.
2
To mock repeatedly; flout.
3
To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.
4
Archaic To 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: