med|i|cas|ter

med|i|cas|ter
med|i|cas|ter «MEHD uh KAS tuhr», noun.
a pretender to medical skill; quack: »

Impostors and visionaries and swindlers and medicasters…hastened to Rome (Hendrik Van Loon).

[< Latin medicus physician + -aster, a diminutive suffix]

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