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Definition of mountebank:

(n) : one who sells dubious medicines; one who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan
"there is nothing so impossible in Nature but mountebanks will undertake; nothing so incredible but they will affirm. - John Bull"
(v) : to act as a mountebank
"chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,
Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved - Coriolanus, Wm. Shakespeare"
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Definition of mountebank:

(n) : one who sells dubious medicines; one who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan
"there is nothing so impossible in Nature but mountebanks will undertake; nothing so incredible but they will affirm. - John Bull"
(v) : to act as a mountebank
"chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,
Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved - Coriolanus, Wm. Shakespeare"
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