DERIDE, verb transitive [Latin To laugh.] To laugh at in contempt; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to treat with scorn by laughter. The Pharisees also-derided him. Luke 16:14. Some, who adore Newton for his fluxions, deride him for his religion.
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