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taxonomy | mountebank |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and mountebank

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while mountebank is one who sells dubious medicines.

As a verb mountebank is

to act as a mountebank.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    mountebank

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who sells dubious medicines.
    • There is nothing so impossible in Nature but mountebanks will undertake; nothing so incredible but they will affirm. - John Bull
  • One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.
  • * 1951 , publication), part III: “The Mayors”, chapter 7, page 106, ¶ 13
    • “Are you allowing yourselves to be fooled by this mountebank, this harlequin? Do you cringe before a religion compounded of clouds and moonbeams? This man is an imposter and the Galactic Spirit he speaks of a fraud of the imagination devised to——”

    Quotations

    : * (English Citations of "mountebank")

    See also

    * patent medicine * snake oil * quack

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act as a mountebank.
  • To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.
    • Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,
    Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved'' - ''Coriolanus     ,

    Derived terms

    * mountebankery

    References