[a. F. charlatanerie, ad. It. ciarlataneria: see prec. and -RY.] Action that bespeaks a charlatan; quackery, imposture.
(More contemptuous than the prec., and referring more to actual practice.)
1638. Divine & Pol. Observ. fr. Dutch, 54. The shift he useth, could not have saved another man from imputation of impudency and charlatanery.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Charlatanerie, cousening or gulling speech, cogging, lying.
1766. H. Walpole, Corr. (1837), II. 327. [I] do not even envy you Rousseau, who has all the charlatanerie of Count St. Germain to make himself singular and talked of.
1869. Sir J. T. Coleridge, Mem. Keble, 374. Rules like these … to guard against direct swindling, and charlataneries.
