Word Meanings - MOUNTEBANKISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.

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• MOUNTEBANKISM
  The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
• MOUNTEBANK
  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
• MOUNTEBANKERY
  The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
• MOUNTEBANKISH
  Like a mountebank or his quackery. Howell.