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SARDONIAN Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SARDONIAN is sardonic.
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SARDONIAN definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
2 senses: 1. a person who flatters with harmful or deadly intent 2. → another word for sardonic.... Click for more definitions.
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sardonian, adj. & n. meanings, etymology and more
There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the word sardonian. See 'Meaning & use' for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is now ...
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sardonian
† sarˈdonian, a. and n. Obs. Also 6 sardenian. See also Sardinian a. 2. [f. L. sardoni-us + -an. The Latin adj. is ad. Gr. σαρδόνιος Sardinian, which in late Gr. was substituted for σαρδάνιος (Homer, etc.; of obscure origin), as the descriptive epithet of bitter or scornful laughter; the motive of t...
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Sardonian - Websters Dictionary 1828
SARDO'NIAN,. SARDON'IC, adjective sardonian or sardonic laughter, a convulsive involuntary laughter, so called from the herba sardonia, a species of ranunculus ...
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Sardonian - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Latin sardonius, from Ancient Greek Σαρδόνιος (Sardónios, “Sardinian”), earlier σαρδάνιος (sardánios). Adjective. edit. Sardonian (comparative more ...
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SARDONIC Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SARDONIC is disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking. How to use sardonic in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Sardonic.
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Sardonic = "plant from Sardinia," kinda : r/etymology - Reddit
The Greeks believed that eating a certain plant they called sardonion (literally "plant from Sardinia," see Sardinia) caused facial convulsions resembling ...
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Sardonian or sardonic: a botanico-etymological inquiry
According to Collins' English dictionary, sardonian means “a person who flatters with harmful or deadly intent” while Webster's (1913 Ed.) ...
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"sardonian" definitions and more: Grimly mocking or bitterly sarcastic
Usually means: Grimly mocking or bitterly sarcastic. Definitions Related words Mentions History. We found 12 dictionaries that define the word sardonian:
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Sardonic - Oxford Reference
Grimly mocking or cynical, from French via Latin, and ultimately from Greek sardonios 'of Sardinia', alteration of sardanios, used by Homer to describe ...
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sardonican
[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., We...
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sardonic
sardonic, a. (sɑːˈdɒnɪk) Also 7 sardonick, sardanique. [a. F. sardonique (16th c.) = Sp. sardónico, Pg., It. sardonico, as if ad. L. *sardonicus, an alteration (by substitution of suffix: see -ic) of sardonius: see sardonian. Hobbes's form sardanique is assimilated to Gr. σαρδάνιος: see prec.] a. Of...
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Sardinian
Sardinian, a. and n. (sɑːˈdɪnɪən) [f. Sardinia (see below) + -an.] A. adj. 1. a. Of or pertaining to Sardinia, i.e. either the large island adjacent to Corsica, or the kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1859), which had its capital at Turin, and included the island of Sardinia as well as Piedmont and adjacen...
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