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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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I. As a duck
II. To make loud and boastful pretensions, esp. in medicine ("To quack of…
III. To practise medicine as a quack

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.

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I. As a duck
II. To make loud and boastful pretensions, esp. in medicine ("To quack of universal cures"
III. To practise medicine as a quack

• quack (v.):

I. As a duck: (?) tĕtrinnĭo, 4: Auct. Carm. de Philomath. 22.
II. To make loud and boastful pretensions, esp. in medicine ("To quack of universal cures": Hudibras): se jactare: gloriari: v. to boast; to brag.
III. To practise medicine as a quack: perh. *medicinam circulatoriam facere, v. quackery: empiricen facere (cf. Plin. 29, 1, 4: alia factio--ab experimentis cognominant empiricen): cf. Cels. l. inf. cit. s. v. quack (subs.).