[sardonican, a.
Error for sardonian a.
| [1794 [T. Taylor] Pausanias' Descr. Greece III. 149 Homer first, and others after him, call laughter, which conceals some noxious design, Sardonian.] 1837 Richardson, Sardonican [quoting this as ‘Sardonican’]. [Hence in Cassell's Encycl. Dict., Century Dict., Webster (1911).]] |