ETYMOLOGY
from Greek σκωπτικός, from σκώπτειν (to mock, jeer)
EXAMPLE
“… Againft these Books, the ‘Learned employed their Learning, and the Witty employed their Wit. Celsus, Porpbyrius, Jamblichus, Hierocles, and other Philosophers, endeavoured to dispute them out of the world, Symmachus and Libanius, and other Rhetors to declaim them away. Julian and Lucian and other Scoptick wits, endeavoured to jeer and droll away the credit of them. …”
From: Sermon Against the Anti-scripturists
By Seth Ward, 1670
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