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Belock vs Bemock - What's the difference?

belock | bemock |

As verbs the difference between belock and bemock

is that belock is (obsolete|transitive) to lock, or fasten as with a lock while bemock is (archaic) to ridicule or mock.

belock

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To lock, or fasten as with a lock.
  • * Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
    • This is the hand, which, with a vow'd contract, was fast belocked in thine.

    bemock

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To ridicule or mock.
  • To mock repeatedly; flout.
  • To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.