MOUNTEBANKED
Verb
mountebanked
simple past tense and past participle of mountebank
Source: Wiktionary
MOUNTEBANK
Mount"e*bank, n. Etym: [It. montimbanco, montambanco; montare to
mount + in in, upon + banco bench. See Mount, and 4th Bank.]
1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public
place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines
which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.
Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank ...
is preferred before an able physician. Whitlock.
2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake.
Arbuthnot.
Mount"e*bank, v. t.
Definition: To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] Shak.
Mount"e*bank, v. i.
Definition: To play the mountebank.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition