bedunce

verb

1. (archaic, rare, transitive)To treat as, or reduce to, a dunce; to make stupid.

   “After he has sufficiently bedunced us through several pages, he at last has the tenderness to answer to our particular objections, and that with sufficient perplexity.”

   “[…] reamsful of financial or statistical calculations; the figures of which, when duly emitted in the House, sufficed to bedunce the brains of five hundred wiser men; […]”