What is the acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle called?
quackery — The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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