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mycterism rare.|ˈmɪktərɪz(ə)m|
[ad. Gr. µυκτηρισµός, f. µυκτηρίζειν to sneer at, f. µυκτήρ nose.]
A gibe or scoff.
1593R. Harvey Philad. 8, I may well say, notwithstanding your trifling mycterisme, that [etc.]. 1678Phillips, Mycterisme, a disdainful gibe, or scoff; in Rhetorick, it is taken for a more secret and close kind of Sarcasm. 1900Saintsbury Hist. Crit. I. 301 Quintilian..observes that..the Greeks call certain kinds of allegory, sarcasm, asteism [etc.]..to which it may be well to add mycterism, a kind of derision which is dissembled, but not altogether concealed. |