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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A follower of Duns Scotus. See Scotism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of (Joannes) Duns Scotus, the Franciscan scholastic (d. 1308), who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology, in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican scholastic.

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