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Mountebank

the market or other public place boasts of his skill in curing diseases and vends medicines which he pretends are infallible remedies a quack doctor

Necromancy

The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead the black art hence magic in general conjuration enchantment See Black art

Pansophical

All wise claiming universal knowledge as pansophical pretenders

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Politicaster

A petty politician a pretender in politics

Pretendership

The character right or claim of a pretender

Pretension

The act of pretending or laying claim the act of asserting right or title

Pseudo

A combining form or prefix signifying false counterfeit pretended spurious as pseudo apostle a false apostle pseudo clergy false or spurious clergy pseudo episcopacy pseudo form pseudo

Psilosopher

A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy a sham philosopher

Witchcraft

for charging another with any such offence in Great Britain'; but it is also enacted that all persons pretending to use any kind of witchcraft, etc., shall upon conviction on indictment suffer one whole year's imprison-ment, and

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