duncify
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
duncify (third-person singular simple present duncifies, present participle duncifying, simple past and past participle duncified)
- (transitive) To make stupid in intellect.
- July 8 1759 William Warburton, letter to Richard Hurd
- Here you have a fellow ten thousand times more duncified than dunce Webster
- July 8 1759 William Warburton, letter to Richard Hurd
References[edit]
- “duncify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.