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mountebank |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank . . . is preferred before an able physician. --Whitlock. 2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack. Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake. --Arbuthnot. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, v. t. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, v. i. To play the mountebank. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: mountebank n : a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes [syn: {charlatan}]
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