01 n. 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 p…
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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 infallible remedies; a quack doctor.“Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank . . . is preferred before an able physician.” — Whitlock.
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Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.“Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake.” — Arbuthnot.