† quacksalving, ppl. a. Obs.
(ˈkwæksælvɪŋ)
[f. *quacksalve vb. (inferred from quacksalver) + -ing2.]
Quackish.
1. Of things: Belonging to, or characteristic of, a quacksalver.
| 1608 Middleton Mad World ii. vi, Any quacksalving terms will serve for this purpose. a 1691 Bp. 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.
| 1608 Dekker Lanth. & Cand. k. Quack-saluing Empericks. 1620 Melton Astrolog. 18 If you should kill three hundred, you would still remain but a Quack-salving Physician. 1622 Massinger & Dekker Virg. Mart. iv. i, Quacksalving, cheating mountebanks! 1649 C. Walker Hist. Independ. ii. 207 A Quack-salving Doctor of Phisick. |
Hence † quacksalvingly adv., in the manner of a quack. Obs.
| 1652 Gaule Magastrom. 105 An experiment in physick or medicine, sc., brought to effect, many times, empirically, quacksalvingly, ignorantly. |