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duncical .
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Examples
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On this wise did Hasib, from a dunsical know-nothing, unskilled to read writing, become, by the decree of
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With him he mumbled all his kiriels and dunsical breborions, which he so curiously thumbed and fingered, that there fell not so much as one grain to the ground.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He will not, trust me, have to deal in my person with a sottish, dunsical Amphitryon, nor with a silly witless Argus, for all his hundred spectacles, nor yet with the cowardly meacock Acrisius, the simple goose-cap Lycus of Thebes, the doting blockhead Agenor, the phlegmatic pea-goose
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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With him he mumbled all his kiriels and dunsical breborions, which he so curiously thumbed and fingered, that there fell not so much as one grain to the ground.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He will not, trust me, have to deal in my person with a sottish, dunsical Amphitryon, nor with a silly witless Argus, for all his hundred spectacles, nor yet with the cowardly meacock Acrisius, the simple goose-cap Lycus of Thebes, the doting blockhead Agenor, the phlegmatic pea-goose
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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With him he mumbled all his kiriels and dunsical breborions, which he so curiously thumbed and fingered, that there fell not so much as one grain to the ground.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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