Duns [verb]

In discussing Duns Scotus, I have given less from his writings than has been my wont with other philosophers.

If I selected lucid and simple extracts, they would give no idea of the intricacy and prolixity of Duns.

On the other hand, I could not bring myself by lengthy or impossible quotations to vilify Duns.

Duns pursued him to the office and he sometimes hid from them in a huge safe which the office contained.

That evening Bruce vanished from Camford, with the regrets of few except his tailors and his duns.

Both assert that men are debtors to God, and that miseries are "duns" used to make men pay their obligations to heaven.

Tempt not the far Ægean breeze; With home-made wine and books that please,To duns and bores the door deny,At home, alone.

The main thing was to avoid, put off, and distance his duns.

"Ego autem redeo ad sententiam Avicembronis," is a formula in Duns Scotus's discussion of the principle of matter.

The importunity—nay, the insolence—of duns shall assail him at every post and every hour.