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Duns Scotus

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A schoolman, called Duns from Dunce in Berwickshire. (1265–1308.) Not John Scotus, Erigěna, the schoolman, who died A.D. 875.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Dunce
Dunciad
Dunderhead
Dundreary (Lord)
Dungaree
Dunghill!
Dunghill
Dunkers
Dunmow
Dunmow Flitch
Duns Scotus
Dunstable
Dunstan (St.)
Duodecimo
Duomo (The)
Dup
Dupes
Durandana
Durandartë
Durante
Durbar (Indian word)

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Duns Scotus, Johannes