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Webster 1913 Edition
Mountebank
Mount′e-bank
,Noun.
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.
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.
Mount′e-bank
,Verb.
T.
To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
[R.]
Shak.
Mount′e-bank
,Verb.
I.
To play the mountebank.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mountebank
MOUNT'EBANK
, n.1.
One who mounts a bench or state in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, vends medicines which he pretends are infallible remedies, and thus deludes the ignorant multitude. Persons of this character may be indicted and punished.2.
Any boastful and false pretender. Nothing so impossible in nature, but mountebanks will undertake.
MOUNT'EBANK
,Verb.
T.