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单词 mountebankery
释义 mountebankery|ˈmaʊntɪbæŋkərɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ery.]
Action, or an act, which bespeaks or characterizes a mountebank.
1618Sir R. Naunton in Fortescue Papers (Camden) 71 For giving no easier way to theyr mountebanqueries.1677Gilpin Demonol. (1867) 421 When I have sometime observed a mountebank..giving excessive commendations of a trivial medicine..it hath put me in mind of this spiritual mountebankery of the devil.1845Medico-Chirurg. Rev. Apr. 370 Our author is too acute to believe in any of the mountebankeries..of this ‘forlorn thing’[i.e. mesmerism].1887Sat. Rev. 16 July 71/1 The kind of mountebankery which has carried many a man into power in France.
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