Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The playing of legerdemain tricks; a trick of legerdemain; juggling; sleight of hand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Legerdemain; prestidigitation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
legerdemain ;prestidigitation
Etymologies
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Latin praestigiare to deceive by juggling tricks, from praestigae. See prestige.
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Examples
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Sometimes they offer themselves to human sight and hearing by mock apparitions in order to foretell the future: and this species is called "prestigiation" because man's eyes are blindfolded
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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This Fanfar gave lessons in prestigiation, but the people who went up his private stairs were well dressed, and most of them looked like old soldiers.
The Son of Monte-Cristo Jules Lermina 1877
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