☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Mountebank

A person who deceives others through false pretenses, especially by selling fraudulent medicines or making extravagant claims. In law, applied to confidence tricksters, quack doctors, and others who defraud the public through theatrical deception.

Etymology: Italian 'montambanco' (one who mounts a bench), from 'montare in banco' (to mount a bench, as a street vendor) · Category: Criminal Law · Source: Ben Jonson, 'Volpone' (1606); historical fraud indictments
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