单词 | quacksalving |
释义 | † quacksalvingadj. Obsolete. 1. Of a person: resembling or acting like a quacksalver; that is a quacksalver. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [adjective] > like a charlatan empiric?1583 quacksalving1607 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [adjective] fraudulentc1430 fraudelous1483 impostorous?1549 empirical1588 quacksalving1607 imposterous1611 imposturous1611 impostrous1612 impostorious1623 mountebankish1660 jackleg1833 jack-legged1839 sharkish1844 spivvy1945 spivvish1948 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders sig. ¶4 Here your Lordships shall see..the cheating cunnicatcher, the quacksaluing mountebanke, the kind cuckold [etc.]. 1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. K2 Quack-saluing Empericks. 1620 J. Melton Astrologaster 18 If you should kill three hundred, you would still remain but a Quack-salving Physician. 1649 C. Walker Anarchia Anglicana ii. 207 A Quack-salving Doctor of Phisick. 1684 Lucian's Dialogues i. 12 Thou dull Quack-salving Mountebank. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. v. 126 The quack-salving, word-mongering, star-gazing, lie-coining impostor. 1859 Harper's Mag. Mar. 549/1 Guidance of a great First Cause infinitely wiser than a myriad party mountebanks and quack-salving politicians. 2. Of a thing: belonging to or characteristic of a quacksalver. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [adjective] > of things quacksalving1608 1608 T. Middleton Mad World, my Masters ii. sig. C4 Any guacksaluing termes will serue for this purpose. 1675 H. Croft Naked Truth 25 Generals and particulars, the quid, the quale, the quantum, and such like quacksalving forms. Derivatives quacksalvingly adv. in the manner of a quacksalver. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [adverb] fraudulently1474 fraudfullyc1480 fraudelously1481 knavishly1481 overreachingly1571 cozeningly1611 mountebankly1619 quacksalvingly1652 imposterously1657 sharkingly1659 upon the sham1689 on the cross1802 quackishly1816 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 105 An experiment in Physick..brought to effect many times Empirically, Quack-salvingly, ignorantly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1607 |
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