Word Meanings - MOUNTEBANKERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

BOASTFUL
Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
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.
QUACKERY
The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle.