quacksalver

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I warrant neither treatment, being out of the regular practice of the schools; but, in the present case, there can be little harm in trying the conclusion upon this old necromancer and quacksalver-_fiat experimentum (as we say) in corpore vili Peace, fool!"

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  1. noun Archaic A quack or charlatan.

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  • The term quacksalver was quickly shortened in common usage, giving us quack . —  The Word Detective
  • I warrant neither treatment, being out of the regular practice of the schools; but, in the present case, there can be little harm in trying the conclusion upon this old necromancer and quacksalver-_fiat experimentum (as we say) in corpore vili Peace, fool!" —  The Abbot
  • "Pshaw! he is a quacksalver, and mountebank, and beggar." —  Peveril of the Peak
  • "In other words," said Tressilian, "you were Jack Pudding to a quacksalver." —  Kenilworth
  • Am I not yclept quacksalver by those that come not near me, and wizard by those I heal? —  The Cloister and the Hearth
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  1. Obsolete Dutch : Middle Dutch quac-, unguent, or quacken, to quack, boast + Middle Dutch salven, to salve.

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  1. from Dutch kwakzalver (= Low German quaksalver, later G. quacksalber = Swedish qvacksalvare = Danish kvaksalver), a quacksalver, from kwaken, quack, + zalver, salver: see salver.
 

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