scofferyt (skoferi)

[ act of scoffing; mockery. [Rare.] King Henrie the fift in his beginning thought it a meere scofferie to pursue anie fallow deere with hounds or grei hounds. Harrison, Descrip. of England, iii. 4. (Holinshed's Chron.) scoffingly (skôf'ing-li), adv. In a scoffing manner; in mockery or scorn; by way of derision. Words worth, being asked his opinion of the same poem [Keats's "Hyper i on"], called it, scofingly, "a pretty piece Landor, Southey and Landor, ii. of paganism. scoganismt (skō'gan-izm), п. [ But what do I trouble my reader with this idle Scogan Bp. Hall, Works, IX. 183. ( Davies.) ism? Scolds or jesters are only fit this combat.