duncify

English

Etymology

dunce +‎ -ify

Verb

duncify (third-person singular simple present duncifies, present participle duncifying, simple past and past participle duncified)

  1. (transitive) To make stupid in intellect.
    • July 8 1759 William Warburton, letter to Richard Hurd
      Here you have a fellow ten thousand times more duncified than dunce Webster

References
  • duncify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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