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English Dictionary: mountebank by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mountebank
n
  1. a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
    Synonym(s): mountebank, charlatan
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, v. t.
      To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.]
      --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, v. i.
      To play the mountebank.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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