Dictionary entry

Spurn (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Spurn, v. i. 1. To kick or toss up the heels.

The miller spurned at a stone. Chaucer.

The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns. Gay.

2. To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.

Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image. Shak.