cunningman

See also: cunning man

English

Noun

cunningman (plural cunningmen)

(obsolete) A fortuneteller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.
- 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
  He that with injury is griev'd,
  And goes to law to be reliev'd,
  Is sillier than a sottish chouse
  Who , when a thief has robb'd his house,
  Applies himself to cunning men,
  To help him to his goods agen

References

“cunningman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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