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Definition of Mountebankeries
1. mountebankery [n] - See also: mountebankery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountebankeries
Literary usage of Mountebankeries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Literature ; an Historical Sketch, 1620-1880 by John Nichol (1882)
"and confound the genial glow of genuine comedy with the " flat, stale, and
unprofitable" mountebankeries of the farce. The master of this degenerate style ..."
2. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1878)
"So told, no mirth in this world ever surpassed the fascination of those early
mountebankeries. We have seen austere judges, venerable prelates, grand lords, ..."
3. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1845)
"67. From Phrenology we pass on to — Mesmerism. Our author is too acute to believe
in any of the mountebankeries- Clairvoyance for example — of ..."
4. The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine (1845)
"Our author is too acute to believe in any of the mountebankeries— Clairvoyance
for example—of this " forlorn thing,'' as Marshall Hall calls it. ..."
5. American Literature: An Historical Sketch, 1620-1880 by John Nichol (1882)
"... stale, and unprofitable" mountebankeries of the farce. The master of this
degenerate style is a writer to whom it is hard to do neither more nor less ..."
6. American Literature ; an Historical Sketch, 1620-1880 by John Nichol (1882)
"and confound the genial glow of genuine comedy with the " flat, stale, and
unprofitable" mountebankeries of the farce. The master of this degenerate style ..."
7. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1878)
"So told, no mirth in this world ever surpassed the fascination of those early
mountebankeries. We have seen austere judges, venerable prelates, grand lords, ..."
8. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1845)
"67. From Phrenology we pass on to — Mesmerism. Our author is too acute to believe
in any of the mountebankeries- Clairvoyance for example — of ..."
9. The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine (1845)
"Our author is too acute to believe in any of the mountebankeries— Clairvoyance
for example—of this " forlorn thing,'' as Marshall Hall calls it. ..."
10. American Literature: An Historical Sketch, 1620-1880 by John Nichol (1882)
"... stale, and unprofitable" mountebankeries of the farce. The master of this
degenerate style is a writer to whom it is hard to do neither more nor less ..."
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