scaldabanco

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  1. A hot declaimer. The Presbyterians, those Scalda-bancos or hot declamers, had wrought a great distast in the Commons at the king. Bp. Hacket, Abp. Williams, ii. 182. (Davies.)

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  1. from Italian scaldabanco, “one that keepes a seate warme, but ironically spoken of idle lecture[r]s that possesse a pewe in the schooles or pulpet in churches and baffle out they know not what; also a hot-headed puritane” (Florio, 1611); from scaldare, heat, warm, + banco, bench: see scald and bank. The allusion in mountebank and saltimbanco is different.
 

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