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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (archaic) One falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills, especially one who dispenses potions, ointments, etc. supposedly having curative powers.

Exempel

  • "Your Grace does not mean Dr. Wilderhead's powder of projection?"
  • "Pshaw! he is a quacksalver, and mountebank, and beggar."
  • "I come before you, ladies and gentlemen, . . . to introduce to you what I call my Elixir Anthropos . . . ."
  • . . . [H]e listened intently to the quack-salver's address, and from time to time his eyes would twinkle and his lips curve in an ironic smile.
  • One is reminded of a familiar figure of medieval fairs, who survived long in this country [England], and perhaps still survives in remote districts—the quacksalver who hawks his infallible remedies from a wagon.
  • "Your Grace does not mean Dr. Wilderhead’s powder of projection?"</br>"Pshaw! he is a quacksalver, and mountebank, and beggar."
  • "I come before you, ladies and gentlemen, . . . to introduce to you what I call my Elixir Anthropos . . . ."</br>. . . [H]e listened intently to the quack-salver’s address, and from time to time his eyes would twinkle and his lips curve in an ironic smile.

Böjningsformer

Pluralquacksalvers