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Definitions for: Mountebank
[n] a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
Mount"e*bank, v. t.
To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.]
--Shak.
Mount"e*bank, v. i.
To play the mountebank.
Synonyms: charlatan
See Also: beguiler, cheat, cheater, craniologist, deceiver, phrenologist, quack, slicker, trickster
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