ppl. a. Obs. [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 quacksalving forms.
2. Of persons: Resembling, acting like, a quack.
1608. Dekker, Lanth. & Candle-lt., K 2. 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, Quack-salvingly, ignorantly, blindly, upon a rash adventure.
