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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

charlatan

, fr. It.

ciarlatano

, fr.

ciarlare

to chartter, prate; of imitative origin; cf. It.

zirlare

to whistle like a thrush.]

One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.

Noun.

One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions to skill; a quack; an empiric; a mountebank.