prestigiator

English

Etymology

From Latin praestigiator.

Noun

prestigiator (plural prestigiators)

1. (obsolete) A conjurer; a prestidigitator.
   • 1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC:

     this cunning Prestigiator took the advantage of so high a place to set off his Representations the more lively, and to make them the more probable to be true .

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prestigiator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)