I.mockery, scorn, derision (perh. not ante-Aug.): “facile ad derisum stulta levitas ducitur,” Phaedr. 5, 7, 3; Sen. Contr. 4 prooem.; Quint. 6, 3, 7; Tac. Agr. 39; “esp.: in derisum facere,” to mock, put to scorn, Vulg. Jer. 20, 7 sq.; id. Thren. 3, 14; cf.: “in derisum habere, dare,” id. Sap. 5, 3; 12, 25.
dērīsus , ūs, m. derideo,