quack (subs.) Copy link Outline I. A boastful pretender to any artII. Prop. an itinerant medical practitioner, who puffs his drugs in public places; but now, any irregular practitioner, esp. one who boasts of a specific1. circŭlātor, m.2. pharmăcŏpōla, ae, m. (a medicine-vendor), Hor. S. 1, 2, 13. histrĭo, m.4. ĭātrăliptă, or -ēs, ae, m. (Gk. ἰατραλείπτης, one who cures by anointing, exactly = quacksalver), Cels. 1, 1. Plin. Ep. 10, 45. praestigiātor • quack (subs.), fr. the v.: and quacksalver (Germ. quacksalber). I. A boastful pretender to any art: jactātor: ostentātor: homo vaniloquus, gloriosus: also expr. by verbs: v. braggart, impostor, pretender II. Prop. an itinerant medical practitioner, who puffs his drugs in public places; but now, any irregular practitioner, esp. one who boasts of a specific: 1. circŭlātor, m.: cf. Cels. 5, 27, 3, quod per quaedam medicamenta c. faciunt: hence expr. a quack-medicine by medicamentum circulatorium. 2. pharmăcŏpōla, ae, m. (a medicine-vendor), Hor. S. 1, 2, 1: and ph. circumforaneus (a travelling medicine-vendor), Cic. Clu. 14, 40. 3. histrĭo, m.: et Cels. 5, 26, 1, histrionis est parvam rem attollere. 4. ĭātrăliptă, or -ēs, ae, m. (Gk. ἰατραλείπτης, one who cures by anointing, exactly = quacksalver), Cels. 1, 1. Plin. Ep. 10, 4: cf. empiric. 5. praestigiātor: v. juggler.