derider

[Eng. derid (e); -er.] 1. One who derides, mocks, or ridicules another; a mocker, a scoffer. "Upon the contempts offered by deriders of religion, fearful tokens of divine revenge have been known to follow."- Hooker : Eccles. Polity. *2. A droll, a buffoon. dě-rid-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [DERIDE.] A. As pr. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adj.: Mocking, scoffing, ridiculing, derisive. "Asking him in a deriding manner Memoirs, ii 171. ."-Ludlow: C. As subst.: The act of mocking, scorning, or ridiculing. dě-rid-Ing-ly, adv. [Eng. deriding; ly.] In a deriding or mocking manner; derisively. "His parasite was wont deridingly to advise him."- Bp . Reynolds: On the Pa ions, ch. xxxvii. *der'-Ing, pr . par ., a. & s. [DERE, v .] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip . adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of hurting, injuring, or harming. dě-ri-şion, s. [Fr. derision; Lat. derisio: from derisus, pa. par. of derideo =to deride (q. v.).] IMG:content-2217.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The act of deriding, mocking, or turning into ridicule. "The only effect, however, of the reflection now thrown on him was to call forth a roar of derision."-- Macaulay : Hist. Eng ., ch. xv. 12. The state of being derided, mocked, or scorned. "I am in derision daily; every one mocketh me." -Jer. xx. 7. †3. An object of scorn or ridicule. "I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day."- Lam . iii. 14. *dě-ri-şion-ar-y, a . [English derision ; -ary .] Derisive. I. Ordinary Language: *1. Literally: IMG:content-2218.png:[blocks in formation] (1) A drawing or leading away of water from its lents are among the most important remedies. "That derision ary festival," -T. Brown : Works , ii. 215. dě ri-sive, a. [Lat. derisus , pa. par. of derideo =to deride (q. v.).] Mocking, deriding, scorning, ridiculing. "Derisive taunts were spread from guest to guest." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, ii. 364. the derivation of angelic and spiritual natures No. 8. according to a fantastic system."-Hurd: Serm., vol. vi., (3) That which is deduced, derived, or drawn from a source. "Most of them are the genuine derivations of the hypothesis they claim to."-Glanvill. *(4) Extraction, descent. "My derivation was from ancestors Who stood equivalent with mighty kings." II. Technically : Shakesp.: Pericles , v. 1. 1. Gram.: The tracing or drawing of a word from its original source, or root. "The derivation of words, especially from for rain languages." -Bacon: On Learning , bk, vi., ch. v. derivation. 2. Gunnery: The peculiar constant deviation of an elongated projectile from a rifled gun. 3. Math .: The deriving or deducing of a derivate from that which precedes it, or from the function. 4. Med .: The drawing of humors from one part of the body to another, as from the eye by a blister on the neck; agents which produce this result are called derivatives (q. v.). IMG:content-2219.png:[blocks in formation] "Derivation differs from revulsion only in the measure we draw it to some of the distance, and the force of the medicines used if gentle means, we call it derivation ."-Wiseman. neighboring place, and by (1) Law of derivation : Alg .: A law used in finding the succe ive differential coefficients of a power of 2 : get the next differential coefficient, multiply the last by its exponent, and reduce the exponent by a unit. (2) Calculus of derivations : IMG:content-2220.png:[blocks in formation] developing functions into a series, by the aid of Math .: A name given by Arbogast to a method of certain formulæ deduced from the principles of the an instance of this principle. calculus of operations. The binomial formula is Relating or pertaining to derivation. †der-i-va-tion-al, a. [Eng. derivation; -al.] od as derivational."-Earle: Eng. Plants, p. xciii. "Weigand treats the termination O. H. G. -not, A. S. Geol.: A name sometimes given to mechanically formed aqueous rocks, such as can be proved to have been derived from the abrasion of other preexistent rocks. In a derivative manner; by derivation, secondarily. dě-riv-a-tive-lý, adv . [Eng. derivative ; -ly .] The quality or state of being derivative. dě-riv-a-tive-ne , s . [Eng. derivative ; -ne .] dě-rive', v . t . & i . [Fr. dériver ; Sp. & Port. de rivar; Ital. derivare , from Lat. derivo =to drain, draw off water: de =down, away, and rivus =a river, a stream.] IMG:content-2221.png:[blocks in formation] into all such as beleue."- Udall : Romans , c. v. "So through the righteousne e of one which is derived (4) To receive by transmi ion; to draw. "To the weight derived from talents so great and various he united all the influence which belongs to rank and ample po e ions."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. ii. *(5) To communicate to by descent of blood; to transmit, to hand down. "Besides the readine of parts, an excellent disposition of mind is derived to your lordship from the parents of two generations."- Felton . (6) To cause to spring; to give birth or origin to. "But each organism will still retain the general type of structure from which it was origi