Word of the Day: DERISORIOUS


ETYMOLOGY
from Latin derisorius, from derisor (derider, mocker) + -ous


EXAMPLE
“…And that therefore the Spirit of Prophecy foreseeing these times, whenas for such a space he called Rome Pergamus, this succeeding Scene coming on, he might very well change the title of Pergamus into that of Thyatira, with a derisorious Allusion to the occasion of the name of that City, from the news of a Daughter being born to Nicanor.…”

From: An Antidote Against Idolatry
By Henry More, 1664

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