scorn vb. (1 and 2 are the orig. senses)
1.
intr.
to mock or jeer (“at” a
person)
LLL. IV. iii. 147
“How will he
scorn!,”
AYL. III. v. 131,
John I. i. 228
“why s-'st thou at Sir
Robert?,”
Rom. I. v. 61.
2.
trans. to ridicule,
mock, deride
Err. IV. iv. 76
“taunt, and
me,”
Mer.V. III. i. 60
“mocked at my gains,
s-ed my nation,”
Cor. II. iii. 230, Cæs. I. ii.
205.
