PRESTIGIATORY ADJ. relating to or involving prestigiation (the practice of sorcery or magic; deception or delusion by such practice); conjuring; consisting of tricks, impostures, or illusions; deceptive, delusive ...1588 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin praestigiatorius from praestigiat-, past participial stem of praestigiare (to prestigiate, to deceive by illusion, or as by magic; to delude) + classical Latin -ōrius (-ory) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1588 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...and heraldicall illusions, or of their ambiguous aequivocations, interdeux amphibologies, and aenigmaticall ridles, or finally of any their other colourable glosses, & hypocriticall subornations, in some like prestigiatory, and sophisticall veine?..." From: A Discoursiue Probleme Concerning Prophesies, how far they are to valued, or credited, according to the surest rules... - John Harvey
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