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单词 quacksalving
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quacksalvingadj.

Forms: 1600s quacksaluing, 1600s 1800s quacksalving.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: quacksalver n., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < quacksalv- (in quacksalver n.) + -ing suffix2. N.E.D. (1902) gives the pronunciation as (kwæ·ksælviŋ) /ˈkwæksælvɪŋ/.
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).
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adj.1607
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