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mountebank
(encz) | mountebank,šarlatán n: Zdeněk Brož |
Mountebank
(gcide) | Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, v. t.
To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.]
--Shak.
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Mountebank
(gcide) | Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, v. i.
To play the mountebank.
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Mountebank
(gcide) | Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, n. [It. montimbanco, montambanco;
montare to mount + in in, upon + banco bench. See Mount,
and 4th Bank.]
1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other
public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and
vends medicines which he pretends are infallible remedies;
a quack doctor.
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Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that
a mountebank . . . is preferred before an able
physician. --Whitlock.
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2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
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Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will
undertake. --Arbuthnot.
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mountebank
(wn) | mountebank
n 1: a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with
tricks or jokes [syn: mountebank, charlatan] |
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Mountebank
(gcide) | Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, v. t.
To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.]
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, v. i.
To play the mountebank.
[1913 Webster]Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, n. [It. montimbanco, montambanco;
montare to mount + in in, upon + banco bench. See Mount,
and 4th Bank.]
1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other
public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and
vends medicines which he pretends are infallible remedies;
a quack doctor.
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Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that
a mountebank . . . is preferred before an able
physician. --Whitlock.
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2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
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Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will
undertake. --Arbuthnot.
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Mountebankery
(gcide) | Mountebankery \Mount"e*bank`er*y\, n.
The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain
pretenses.
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Mountebankish
(gcide) | Mountebankish \Mount"e*bank`ish\, a.
Like a mountebank or his quackery. --Howell.
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Mountebankism
(gcide) | Mountebankism \Mount"e*bank*ism\, n.
The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
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