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Definition of Mountebanking
1. mountebank [v] - See also: mountebank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountebanking
Literary usage of Mountebanking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... Observe that mountebanking fool, Perch'd yonder on his three-legg'd stool,
With poisonous drugs to sell ; See o'er bis shoulder how he sneers, ..."
2. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"Do not suppose I am going, sicut est mos, to indulge in moralities about buffoons,
paint, motley, and mountebanking. Nay, Prime Ministers rehearse their ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"... mo», to indulge in moralities about buffoons, paint, motley, and mountebanking.
Nay, Prime Ministers rehearse their jokes; Opposition leaders prepare ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"There must be universal mountebanking, political, moral, and religious—in trades,
arts, and sciences. Even in the pulpit, modest sincerity, devout demeanour ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... Observe that mountebanking fool, Perch'd yonder on his three-legg'd stool,
With poisonous drugs to sell ; See o'er bis shoulder how he sneers, ..."
6. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"Do not suppose I am going, sicut est mos, to indulge in moralities about buffoons,
paint, motley, and mountebanking. Nay, Prime Ministers rehearse their ..."
7. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"... mo», to indulge in moralities about buffoons, paint, motley, and mountebanking.
Nay, Prime Ministers rehearse their jokes; Opposition leaders prepare ..."
8. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"There must be universal mountebanking, political, moral, and religious—in trades,
arts, and sciences. Even in the pulpit, modest sincerity, devout demeanour ..."
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