Crossword-Solution: DUNCERY 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Thus it came to pass that many times an adherent of the old learning would seek to strengthen his position by an appeal to its famous doctor, familiarly called Duns; while those of the new learning would contemptuously rejoin, 'Oh, you are a _Dunsman_' or more briefly, 'You are a _Duns_,' --or, 'This is a piece of _duncery_'; and inasmuch as the new learning was ever enlisting more and more of the genius and scholarship of the age on its side, the title became more and more a term of scorn.

There are slight traces of parody of Virgil when, on page 16, Cibber appears as Aeneas (the character he was soon to assume in _The Dunciad in Four Books_) and the epicene Hervey is portrayed as a rejuvenated Sybil guiding the hero through a hell of duncery.

Tennyson's first period which are no more properly to be called metrical than the more shapeless and monstrous parts of Walt Whitman, which are lineally derived as to their form--if form that can be called where form is none--from the vilest example set by Cowley, when English verse was first infected and convulsed by the detestable duncery of sham Pindarics.

Southey says, in his angry way, speaking of his hexameters--"the double ending may be censured as double rhymes used to be; but that objection belongs to the duncery." This is a very absurd mode of disposing of one objection, mentioned by him among many others equally formal and minute, which others he pretends to discuss calmly and patiently.