Psalmanazar, George, an impostor, born in the South of France, who, being brought to London, imposed on Compton, bishop of London, by fabricating a history of Formosa, of which he professed to be a native, but was convicted of the error of his ways by Law's “Serious Call,” and led afterwards what seemed a sober life, and one to commend the regard of Johnson (1679‒1763).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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