Definitions for mountebank
ˈmaʊn təˌbæŋkmoun·te·bank

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mountebank, charlatannoun

   a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. mountebanknoun

   One who sells dubious medicines

   There is nothing so impossible in Nature but mountebanks will undertake; nothing so incredible but they will affirm. - John Bull

2. mountebanknoun

   One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.

3. mountebankverb

   To act as a mountebank

   Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved - Coriolanus, Wm. Shakespeare

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mountebanknoun

   Etymology: montare in banco, Italian.

   1. A doctor that mounts a bench in the market, and boasts his infallible remedies and cures.

   I bought an unction of a mountebank
   So mortal, that but dip a knife in it,
   Where it draws blood, no cataplasm so rare,
   Can save the thing from death. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   She, like a mountebank, did wound
   And stab herself with doubts profound,
   Only to shew with how small pain
   The sores of faith are cur’d again. Hudibras, p. i.

   But Æschylus, says Quintus Horatius Flaccus in some page,
   Was the first mountebank that trod the stage. Dryden.

   It looks so like a mountebank to boast of infallible cures. Thomas Baker, Reflections on Learning.

   2. Any boastful and false pretender.

   As nimble jugglers, that deceive the eye,
   Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks,
   And many such like libertines of sin. William Shakespeare.

   There are mountebanks, and smatterers in state. Roger L'Estrange.

   Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake. John Arbuthnot, Hist. of John Bull.

2. To Mountebankverb

   To cheat by false boasts or pretences.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   I’ll mountebank their loves,
   Cog their hearts from them. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mountebank

   A mountebank is a person who deceives others, often to sell them something, by pretending to have special knowledge or abilities. This term is typically used to describe a trickster, charlatan, con artist, or fraudster.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mountebanknoun

   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

2. Mountebanknoun

   any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack

3. Mountebankverb

   to cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull

4. Mountebankverb

   to play the mountebank

5. Etymology: [It. montimbanco, montambanco; montare to mount + in in, upon + banco bench. See Mount, and 4th Bank.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mountebank

   mown′te-bangk, n. a quack-doctor who boasts of his skill and his medicines: a boastful pretender.—adj. pertaining to such, sham.—v.t. to cheat by false pretences, to humbug.—v.i. to play the mountebank.—ns. Moun′tebankery, Moun′tebanking, Moun′tebankism. [It. montambanco—montare, to mount, in, on, banco, a bench.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mountebank

   The Gammarus arcticus, or arctic shrimp.

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1. • Deceiver

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of mountebank in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of mountebank in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=mountebank
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mountebank
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=mountebank
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mountebank
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=mountebank
7. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=mountebank