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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 Dunces from wikipedia
- the world, you may know him by this sign, that the
dunces are all in
confederacy against him."
Dunces is a
picaresque novel featuring the misadventures...
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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...
- "
Dunces and Dragons" (also
known as "Lost in Time") is the
sixth episode of the
fourth season of the
American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants...
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writing A
Confederacy of
Dunces,
which he
finished at his parents' home
after his discharge.
Toole submitted A
Confederacy of
Dunces to
publisher Simon &...
- 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...
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Hauber Owen
Evans Pietro Aramondo Frank Alexander Dunces and
Dangers at IMDb The
short film
Dunces and
Dangers is
available for free
viewing and download...
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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...
- 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...
- readership.
Gottlieb suffered some
ignominy for
rejecting A
Confederacy of
Dunces by John
Kennedy Toole, a book that
later won the
Pulitzer Prize when it...
- from Virgil. Pope
draws a
parallel between these two
critics and his own
dunces by
quoting John
Dennis who
thought it
likely that
Bavius "and
Maevius had...
