dunce
11dunce — This word is now associated with a child who finds it difficult to learn anything new. Other children might call a dunce: a block head, a clodpoll, dim wit, dull dick, dullard, dunderpate, numbskull, chump, peabrain, or putty brain, depending… …
12dunce — noun a person who is slow at learning. Word History Dunce was originally a name for a follower of the 13th century Scottish theologian John Duns Scotus, whose system of theology and philosophy, known as scholasticism, with its emphasis on… …
13dunce — [16] Dunce originated as a contemptuous term for those who continued in the 16th century to adhere to the theological views of the Scottish scholar John Duns Scotus (c. 1265–1308). Renaissance philosophers ridiculed them as narrow minded hair… …
14dunce — [[t]dʌ̱ns[/t]] dunces N COUNT (disapproval) If you say that someone is a dunce, you think they are rather stupid because they find it difficult or impossible to learn what someone is trying to teach them. Michael may have been a dunce at… …
15dunce — UK [dʌns] / US noun [countable] Word forms dunce : singular dunce plural dunces old fashioned 1) offensive someone, especially a child, who has difficulty learning things 2) humorous a stupid person …
16dunce — [16] Dunce originated as a contemptuous term for those who continued in the 16th century to adhere to the theological views of the Scottish scholar John Duns Scotus (c. 1265–1308). Renaissance philosophers ridiculed them as narrow minded hair… …
17dunce — n. a person slow at learning; a dullard. Phrases and idioms: dunce s cap a paper cone formerly put on the head of a dunce at school as a mark of disgrace. Etymology: John Duns Scotus, scholastic theologian d. 1308, whose followers were ridiculed… …
18Dunce — The word is formed after the name of John Duns Scotus, 13c theologian. His views fell into great disfavour in England during the Reformation, esp. his defence of the papacy. The epithet Dunsman , first used by William Tyndale (d. 1536), became in …
19dunce — noun Dunce is used before these nouns: ↑cap …
20Dunce — , DUNSMEN, DUNSERS John Duns Scotus (1265 1308), born in Duns, Scotland, became a Franciscan friar, then flourished at Cambridge, Oxford and the University of Paris. He was respected as an original thinker, willing to address complex… …
