CHARLATAN
\ʃˈɑːlətən], \ʃˈɑːlətən], \ʃ_ˈɑː_l_ə_t_ə_n]\
Definitions of CHARLATAN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.
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One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.
By Noah Webster.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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Originally, one who went from place to place to sell a medicine, to which he attributed marvellons properties. By extension- any individual, who endeavours to deceive the public by passing himself off as more skilful than he really is. According to Menage, the word comes from circulatanus, a corruption of circulator.
By Robley Dunglison
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One who practises either medicine or pharmacy illegally, or, being a legally qualified practitioner, resorts to vulgar devices for obtaining practice, as by advertisements, public exhibitions, etc. A quack. [It.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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