Syn. — Scorn; mockery; contempt; insult; ridicule.
Derisive
(De*ri"sive) a. Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision. "Derisive taunts." Pope.
— De*ri"sive*ly, adv. — De*ri"sive*ness, n.
Derisory
(De*ri"so*ry) a. [L. derisorius: cf. F. dérisoire.] Derisive; mocking. Shaftesbury.
Derivable
(De*riv"a*ble) a. [From Derive.] That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable
of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as,
income is derivable from various sources.
All honor derivable upon me.
South.
The exquisite pleasure derivable from the true and beautiful relations of domestic life.
H. G. Bell.
The argument derivable from the doxologies.
J. H. Newman. Derivably
(De*riv"a*bly), adv. By derivation.
Derival
(De*riv"al) n. Derivation. [R.]
The derival of e from a.
Earle. Derivate
(Der"i*vate) a. [L. derivatus, p. p. of derivare. See Derive.] Derived; derivative. [R.] H.
Taylor. — n. A thing derived; a derivative. [R.]
Derivate
(Der"i*vate) v. t. To derive. [Obs.] Huloet.
Derivation
(Der`i*va"tion) n. [L. derivatio: cf. F. dérivation. See Derive.]
1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. [Obs.] T. Burnet.
2. The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or
condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
As touching traditional communication, . . . I do not doubt but many of those truths have had the help
of that derivation.
Sir M. Hale. 3. The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from
an Aryan root.
4. The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
5. That from which a thing is derived.
6. That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
From the Euphrates into an artificial derivation of that river.
Gibbon. 7. (Math.) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the
law of derivation, as the operation of differentiation or of integration.
8. (Med.) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a
morbid process.
Derivational
(Der`i*va"tion*al) a. Relating to derivation. Earle.
