English abbreviation dictionary - dunce
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(dunces) 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 mathematics, but he was gifted at languages. N-COUNT c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: John Duns Scotus, whose once accepted writings were ridiculed in the 16th century Date: 1570 a slow-witted or stupid person ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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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 by 16th-c. humanists and reformers as enemies of learning ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1577, from earlier Duns disciple "follower of John Duns Scotus" (c. 1265-1308), Scot. scholar of philosophy and theology supposed to have been born at Duns in Berwickshire. By 16c., humanist reaction against medieval theology singled him out as the type of the hairsplitting scholastic. It became a term of reproach to more conservative philosophical opponents c.1527, later extended to any dull-witted student. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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