单词 | duns man |
释义 | † Duns mann. depreciative. Obsolete. A follower of John Duns Scotus; a Scotist or (more generally) any scholastic theologian or philosopher; (by extension) an exponent of excessively pedantic, hair-splitting reasoning; = dunce n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > false reasoner, sophist sophisterc1380 Duns man1528 chop-loge1542 dunser?1550 shifter1567 chop-logic1575 sophist1581 casuist1616 casualist1633 Jesuit1640 logicaster1683 chopper1699 special pleader1796 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > Scotism > adherent of Duns man1528 Scotist1531 1528 W. Tyndale That Fayth Mother of All Good Workes f. xlviij A Duns man wold make .xx. distintions. a1540 R. Barnes in W. Tyndale et al. Wks. (1573) 267/1 Now where will our Duns men, bryng in their Bonum conatum? 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 479 The Dunce-men and Sophisters..the inuenters and finders, yea, and the verie makers of Purgatorie. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1528 |
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