单词 | duncicality |
释义 | duncicalityn. depreciative. 1. The practices, writings, and ideas characteristic of a Scotist or (more generally) a scholastic theologian or philosopher; an example of this. Cf. dunce n. 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > Scotism duncery1567 duncicalityc1585 Scotistry1651 Scotism1812 c1585 A. Fraunce Briefe & Gen. Compar. Ramus his Logike with Aristotle (BL Add. 34361) f. 33v Suche an age we lyue in nowe, that neythre the barbarous scholemen can further deceaue us, nor rude dunsicalitys blynde our eyes. 1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike Ded. sig. ¶3 If this be all the Dunsicalitie you talke of, you are farre more nyce then any Vniversitie man of mine acquaintance. 1966 F. A. Yates tr. W. Perkins in Art of Memory xii. 275 Some kind of barbarism and Dunsicality. 1977 St. Croix Rev. June 42 Even the worst dunsicalities of the schoolmen made a pretence of argument, setting up straw men and knocking them down. 2. The state or quality of being a dunce; stupidity, idiocy. Cf. dunce n. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > [noun] > idiocy idiotism1611 imbecility1624 idiotcy1677 idiotry1757 duncicality1790 1790 J. M. Adair Curious Facts & Anecd. 45 That education..would only have exposed his incorrigible duncicality. 1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 21 A degree of literary acquirement which stood in the most advantageous contrast to the positive duncicality of Sally North. 1991 C. Whitworth in I. Small & M. Walsh Theory & Pract. Text-editing 140 Usurped by directorial arrogance, duncicality, or perversity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1585 |
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