sarcastic (sarkastik)

[ What a fierce and sarcastick reprehension would this have drawn from the friendship of the world! South . The sarcastic bitterne of his conversation disgusted those who were more inclined to accuse his licentiousne than their own degeneracy. Macaulay , Machi a vell i. sarcastic alt (sär-kas'ti-kal), a. [ sarcastic + -al .] Sarcastic. He sets it down after this sarcastical manner. Strype , Memorials, Edw. VI., ii. 15. sarcastically (sär-kas'ti-kal-i), adv . In a sarcastic manner; with bitter taunt. The deist Collins said, sarcastically , that nobody doubted the existence of the Deity until the Boyle lecturers had undertaken to prove it. Leslie Stephen, Eng. Thought, ii. § 6. See sarse . sarcet, n. and v. sarcel (sär's el), п. [Also sercel ; cercel , a circle, hoop, bend, the pinion or outer joint of a hawk's wing, cir cell us , dim. of circu- Sarciophorus lus , a ring, circle: see circle.] In falconry , the pinion or outer joint of a hawk's wing. Shaking on their sinnewie side Their long strong sarcels , richly triple-died Gold-Azure-Crims in, th' one aloft doth soar To Palestine, th' other to Nilus shoare. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Magnificence. sarcelé, sarcellée (sär-se-lā'), a . [OF. cer celé , pp. of cerceler , cercel , a circle, hoop: see sarcel.] Same as sarceled . - Cro sarcelé. See cro l.