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Mountebank vs Sophists - What's the difference?

mountebank | sophists |

As nouns the difference between mountebank and sophists

is that mountebank is one who sells dubious medicines while sophists is .

As a verb mountebank

is to act as a mountebank.

mountebank

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who sells dubious medicines.
    • There is nothing so impossible in Nature but mountebanks will undertake; nothing so incredible but they will affirm. - John Bull
  • One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.
  • * 1951 , publication), part III: “The Mayors”, chapter 7, page 106, ¶ 13
    • “Are you allowing yourselves to be fooled by this mountebank, this harlequin? Do you cringe before a religion compounded of clouds and moonbeams? This man is an imposter and the Galactic Spirit he speaks of a fraud of the imagination devised to——”

    Quotations

    : * (English Citations of "mountebank")

    See also

    * patent medicine * snake oil * quack

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act as a mountebank.
  • To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.
    • Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,
    Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved'' - ''Coriolanus     ,

    Derived terms

    * mountebankery

    References

    sophists

    English

    Noun

    (head)