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† quacksalving, ppl. a. Obs.|ˈkwæksælvɪŋ|
[f. *quacksalve vb. (inferred from quacksalver) + -ing2.]
Quackish.
1. Of things: Belonging to, or characteristic of, a quacksalver.
1608Middleton Mad World ii. vi, Any quacksalving terms will serve for this purpose. a1691Bp. Croft in Somers Tracts (ed. Scott) VII. 290 Generals and particulars, the quid, the quale, the quantum, and such-like quack⁓salving forms.
2. Of persons: Resembling, acting like, a quack.
1608Dekker Lanth. & Cand. k. Quack-saluing Empericks. 1620Melton Astrolog. 18 If you should kill three hundred, you would still remain but a Quack-salving Physician. 1622Massinger & Dekker Virg. Mart. iv. i, Quacksalving, cheating mountebanks! 1649C. Walker Hist. Independ. ii. 207 A Quack-salving Doctor of Phisick.
Hence † quacksalvingly adv., in the manner of a quack. Obs.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 105 An experiment in physick or medicine, sc., brought to effect, many times, empirically, quacksalvingly, ignorantly. |