单词 | quackery |
释义 | quackeryn.1 The characteristic practices or methods of a quack, charlatanry; (also) an example of this, a quack practice, remedy, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > practice of healing art > [noun] > ignorantly quacking1648 empirie1651 empiricism1658 quackery1675 routinism1829 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 1675 J. Earle Char. Tavern 4 The Pharmacopeia of a Mountebank, or the Quackeries of Moor fields, befriend not the Grave-makers, so much as these Squires of the Spiggot do. 1676 Poor Robins Intelligence 28 Mar. 1/1 He is a Seaven-Champion in Quackery, that delights in nothing but dangerous adventures. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 320 I know you equally condemn the Quackery..as much as you revere the..Truths in which we both agree. 1798 Trans. Soc. Arts 16 190 All the nostrums offered..are mere quackery. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes i. 6 Quackery and dupery do abound; in religions..they have fearfully abounded. 1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece ix. 273 The old quackery of charms and incantations. 1885 Contemp. Rev. June 908 Theosophy [is]..one of the least interesting of spiritual quackeries. 1933 B. Gadelius Human Mentality xii. 313 Quackery has here found fertile soil for the spreading of the most irresponsible literature. 1962 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 340 156/2 The tremendous progress of the drug industry..has made more difficult the task of the promoter of pharmaceutical quackeries. 1994 Guardian Good Health Guide Fall–Winter 5/1 Some physicians condemn it [sc. homeopathy] as quackery; others..embrace it as the road to wellness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quackeryn.2 rare. The quacking of a number of ducks; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1828 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 293 A sort of low, thick, gurling,..nor unmusical quackery. 1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 966 The quackery of a startled storm of wild ducks. 2006 Edmonton (Alberta) Sun (Nexis) 26 Apr. 6 The snow geese are now back, along with swans, meadowlarks, hawks, ducks... The next few weeks will be a joyful quackery in the lakes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11675n.21828 |
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