Dunciad

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English

Noun

Dunciad (plural Dunciads)

  1. Any satirical poem like The Dunciad by Alexander Pope.
    • 1794, Robert Anderson, The Works of the British Poets:
      The poem, therefore, celebrating him, was properly and absolutely a Dunciad; which though now unhappily lost, yet is its nature sufficiently known by the infallible tokens aforesaid.
    • Lord Byron
      Such damning fame as Dunciads only give / Could bid your lines beyond a morning live.

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