mountebankismn.
/ˈmaʊntᵻbaŋkɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈmaʊn(t)əˌbæŋˌkɪz(ə)m/ Now rare.
The practices, trickery, or deceit characteristic of a mountebank.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun]
falsec1000
fraudc1330
barrat1340
faitery1377
defraudc1450
trumpery1481
covin1487
defraudationc1503
knavery1528
conveyance1531
imposture1537
defrauding1548
cozenage1583
impostry1585
catch-dolt1592
gullery1598
coggery1602
gullage1607
charlatism1611
impostury1615
quacksalvery1617
mountebankery1618
imposition1632
imposturisma1634
blaflum1637
charlatanry1638
defraudment1645
mountebankism1649
impostorya1652
impostorism1652
imposturage1654
impostery1656
mountebank1657
imposing1659
quackery1675
quackism1722
empiricism1774
cross1802
charlatanism1804
practitionery1818
cozenry1829
humbuggery1831
trick1833
thimble-shift1834
thimble-shifting1834
thimbleriggery1841
humbuggism1842
quackhood1843
quacksalverism1864
razzle-dazzle1928
spivery1948
shuck1958
shucking and jiving1969
1649 J. Price Walwins Wiles 13 I shall now proceed in setting forth his Mountebankisme in his Jesuitical betraying of the weaker, more injudicious, and plainer sort of people.
1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 50 An inclination to all sorts of Cheateries and Mountebankism.
1841 T. Moore Animal Magnetism in Poet. Wks. IX. 180 Inform us..Which ism it is that predominates, Whether magnetism and somnambulism, Or..mountebankism.
1882 Society 7 Oct. 14/2 If he is..able to stem the tide of musical mountebankism rampant at another series of..concerts.
1915 C. S. Jones Hohenzollern vi. 170 He was well skilled in the art of deception, so that I saw his mountebankism might be of use to me and to my party.
1926 Sir H. Craik in Hansard Commons 14 Apr. 296 To an old member of the Civil Service, there is, besides its palpable lack of constitutional foundation, something ludicrously absurd in this new-fangled piece of mountebankism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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