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mountebank

n. நாடோ டிப் போலி மருத்துவர், போலி அறிஞர், அறிவுப்பகட்டாளர்.


Mount"e*bank, n. Etym: [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. Mount"e*bank, v. t. Defn: To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] Shak. Mount"e*bank, v. i. Defn: To play the mountebank.


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