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Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

Pansophical :: Pansophical (a.) All-wise; claiming universal knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders..

Assumed :: Assumed (a.) Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character..

Quack :: Quack (a.) Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor..

Pretender :: Pretender (n.) The pretender (Eng. Hist.), the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law..

Pythonic :: Pythonic (a.) Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.

Philosophaster :: Philosophaster (n.) A pretender to philosophy.

Divinator :: Divinator (n.) One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.

Pseudo- :: 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-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively..

Simular :: Simular (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender..

Perfectionist :: Perfectionist (n.) One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life..

Pretex :: Pretex (v. t.) To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to pretend; to declare falsely..

Sanctimony :: Sanctimony (n.) Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness..

Conjurer :: Conjurer (n.) One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand..

Cabala :: Cabala (n.) A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means..

Diviner :: Diviner (n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means..

Pretend :: Pretend (v. i.) To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually with to..

Wiseling :: Wiseling (n.) One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold before one; to extend.

Preterition :: Preterition (n.) A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just. Called also paraleipsis..

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