Dunciad
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[edit]Noun
[edit]Dunciad (plural Dunciads)
- 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.
- 1809, Lord Byron, English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers:
- Such damning fame as Dunciads only give / Could bid your lines beyond a morning live.