Dunciad, The

Dunciad, The, a satire of Pope's in four books, the “fiercest” as well as the best of his satires, in which, with merciless severity, he applies the lash to his critics, and in which Colley Cibber figures as the King of Dunces.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)