Word Meanings - MOUNTEBANK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 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.

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• CURBLESS
  Having no curb or restraint.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• DOCTORATE
  The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
• CURSORIAL
  Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. Of or pertaining to the Cursores.
• PUBLICLY
  1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. 2. In the name of the community. Addison.
• CURMURRING
  Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes. Burns.
• CURIA
  The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household. Burrill. (more info) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus. The place of assembly of one of these divisions. The place where
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
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• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• CURTEIN
  See CURTANA
• QUACK
  1. To utter a sound like the cry of a duck. 2. To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras. 3. To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• STAGERY
  Exhibition on the stage.
• CURARE; CURARI
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• CURCULIONIDOUS
  Pertaining to the Curculionideæ, or weevil tribe.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• MERCURIALISM
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• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• RECUR
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• ZANTE CURRANT
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• ACCURATENESS
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• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
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• SMOTHER
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• OBSCURENESS
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