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Pretendership :: Pretendership (n.) The character, right, or claim of a pretender..

Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.

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

Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..

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

Theologaster :: Theologaster (n.) A pretender or quack in theology.

Adventurer :: Adventurer (n.) A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.

Psilosopher :: Psilosopher (n.) A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy; a sham philosopher.

Witling :: Witling (n.) A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.

Pedant :: Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.

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

Illuminate :: Illuminate (n.) One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge..

Coxcomb :: Coxcomb (n.) A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop..

Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender..

Impostor :: Impostor (n.) One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender..

Ignoramus :: Ignoramus (n.) A stupid, ignorant person; a vain pretender to knowledge; a dunce..

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..

Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant..

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

Sciolist :: Sciolist (n.) One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.

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