mountebank (n.) Old form(s): Mountebanke, Mountebankes
itinerant quack, travelling drug-seller, charlatan
CE I.ii.101[Antipholus of Syracuse alone, of people in Ephesus] Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks
CE V.i.239[Antipholus of Ephesus to Duke, of Pinch] A mere anatomy, a mountebank
Ham IV.vii.140[Laertes to Claudius] I bought an unction of a mountebank
Oth I.iii.61[Brabantio to Duke, of Desdemona] She is ... corrupted / By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks
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