Definition of "mountebanking" []

• Present participle of mountebank. (verb)

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• "Buffoon and buffoonery appertain to low comedy, to mountebanking, to all that can amuse the populace."
• "Do not suppose I am going, sicut est mos, to indulge in moralities about buffoons, paint, motley, and mountebanking."
• "If we want to preserve it, if we desire to perpetuate our institutions, the demagogue, the mountebanking politician must be squelched."