Definition of "impostrous" in Englisch

adjective

1. (archaic) Characterized by imposture; deceitful.

   • 1846-56, George Grote, A History of Greece Rhetoric (argues Plato in the dialogue called Gorgias) is no art whatever, but a mere unscientific knack, enslaved to the dominant prejudices, and nothing better than an impostrous parody on the true political art.