dunsticaladj.

1569 ‘L. Avale’ Commem. Edmonde Boner Pref. sig. A.ij Boner was a Bastarde, ergo no bishop, and this is a true conclusion. This is not true said an old Dunsticall felowe.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 77/2 Al those decretal letters, nothing sauering of that age, but rather of the latter dunsticall times that folowed.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius A ij b As Sophisters use to argue of moates in the Sunne in their triflyng and Dunsticall Schooles [L. in Arcesilae schola].

1641 T. Hayne tr. M. Adam Life & Death Dr. Martin Luther 13 The Students being extreamly weary of the old dunstical course of studies, and most desirous of the sacred Bible.

a1645 D. Featley in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus (1651) 478 A sort of wrangling Sophisters bred of the excrements of the Dunsticall Commenters upon Aristotle.

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Huntington Libr. copy) sig. D3 You shall finde there goes more exquisite paines and puritie of witte, to the writing of one such..Poem as Rosamond, than to a hundred of your dunsticall Serrmons.

1600 R. Kittowe Loues Load-starre sig. G4^v For no man is so dunsticall, that cannot coniecture follie in the smiles, and vanitie in the speeches, of suche vyle Huswiues.

1659 J. Howell Some Prov. French Toung 23/2 in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) Il a la ceruelle a double rebras, a stupid, dull, dunstical fellow.

1674 S. Vincent Young Gallant's Acad. 8 Those silly and ridiculous Fashions, which the Old dunstical world wore, even out at Elbows.

2015 M. Lawrence Alchemist's Daughter xii. 72 Hey nonny nonny, a dunstical fool I be.