bedunceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

be- +‎ dunce

動詞

bedunce (三人称単数 現在形 bedunces, 現在分詞 beduncing, 過去形および過去分詞形 bedunced)

1. (transitive, archaic, rare) To treat as, or reduce to, a dunce; to make stupid.
   • 1866, Oliver Goldsmith, The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith (page 515)

     After he has sufficiently bedunced us through several pages, he at last has the tenderness to answer to our particular objections, and that with sufficient perplexity.

   • 1843, Catherine Grace Frances Gore, The Birthright (page 98)

     […] reamsful of financial or statistical calculations; the figures of which, when duly emitted in the House, sufficed to bedunce the brains of five hundred wiser men; […]