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Definition of Mountebank

Mountebank
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.
Mountebank
Mountebank Mount"e*bank, v. t. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] --Shak.
Mountebank
Mountebank Mount"e*bank, v. i. To play the mountebank.

Meaning of Mountebank from wikipedia

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