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Dunce
Dunce Dunce, n. [From Joannes Duns Scotus, a schoolman called
the Subtle Doctor, who died in 1308. Originally in the phrase
``a Duns man'. See Note below.]
One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull
or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.
I never knew this town without dunces of figure.
--Swift.
Note: The schoolmen were often called, after their great
leader Duns Scotus, Dunsmen or Duncemen. In the revival
of learning they were violently opposed to classical
studies; hence, the name of Dunce was applied with
scorn and contempt to an opposer of learning, or to one
slow at learning, a dullard.
Meaning of Dunce from wikipedia
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theologian and
philosopher John Duns Scotus. A
dunce cap, also
variously known as a
dunce hat,
dunce's cap or
dunce's hat, is a
pointed hat,
formerly used as...
- A
Confederacy of
Dunces is a
picaresque novel by
American novelist John
Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980,
eleven years after Toole's death...
- In topology, the
dunce hat is a
compact topological space formed by
taking a
solid triangle and
gluing all
three sides together, with the orientation...
-
Safety Dunce is an
instrumental metal and hard rock solo
album released by
former Five
Finger Death Punch guitarist Jason Hook in 2007. The
album title...
- Nuñez de Carabajal,
Mexico City, 1601
Christianity portal Spain portal Dunce §
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- wish to be
dunces but are, "Whate'er of
mungril no one
class admits, / A wit with
dunces, and a
dunce with wits" (B IV 89–90).
These dunces orbit Dulness...
- He rose to
ignominious fame when he
became the
chief target, the head
Dunce, of
Alexander Pope's
satirical poem The Dunciad. Cibber's
poetical work...
-
Conocybe lactea or
Conocybe albipes and is
colloquially known as the
white dunce cap or the
milky conecap.
Another common synonym,
Bolbitius albipes G.H...
- the
following episode and the
loser of each
episode must wear a
dunce cap in the
Dunce's Corner. The show has been
renewed for a
second season, to air in...
- from his
corpse and
named him Iron. He is
known for
being an
idiotic and
dunced shadow, even
copying Igris'
habit of
bringing a head to Jinwoo, much to...
