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Definition of Mountebank
1. Noun. A flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes.
Generic synonyms: Beguiler, Cheat, Cheater, Deceiver, Slicker, Trickster
Specialized synonyms: Craniologist, Phrenologist, Quack
Definition of Mountebank
1. 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 pretends are infallible remedies; a quack doctor.
2. v. t. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
3. v. i. To play the mountebank.
Definition of Mountebank
1. Noun. One who sells dubious medicines ¹
2. Noun. One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To act as a mountebank ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mountebank
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Mountebank
1. 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) Origin: It. Montimbanco, montambanco; montare to mount + in in, upon + banco bench. See Mount, and 4th Bank. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountebank
Literary usage of Mountebank
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"P. And this mountebank calls the Quakers ' beasts, that have the spirit of God in
... P. And the mountebank saith, that' the Quakers are not akin to the ..."
2. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"Alas! who could find a mountebank at Hammersmith now? ... And thus we flee to
Morison's [mountebank : from Tempert'« Collection.] pills. ..."
3. The Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1864)
"I was lately called to visit at Aa mountebank, who had plunged into the abyss of sin
... Such was the good impression produced by this converted mountebank, ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1839)
"... 1' Л mountebank called the good folks at a revel, The magic sound drew them
from far and from near, And promised thai he there would show them the devil ..."
5. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1780)
"The State mountebank ; cr Duke and no ... This mountebank fells as vile drugs,
and talks as much non- ..."
6. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"P. And this mountebank calls the Quakers ' beasts, that have the spirit of God in
... P. And the mountebank saith, that' the Quakers are not akin to the ..."
7. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"Alas! who could find a mountebank at Hammersmith now? ... And thus we flee to
Morison's [mountebank : from Tempert'« Collection.] pills. ..."
8. The Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1864)
"I was lately called to visit at Aa mountebank, who had plunged into the abyss of sin
... Such was the good impression produced by this converted mountebank, ..."
9. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1839)
"... 1' Л mountebank called the good folks at a revel, The magic sound drew them
from far and from near, And promised thai he there would show them the devil ..."
10. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1780)
"The State mountebank ; cr Duke and no ... This mountebank fells as vile drugs,
and talks as much non- ..."
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