præstigious

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præstigious (comparative more præstigious, superlative most præstigious)

  1. Archaic form of prestigious.
    • 1695, Balthasar Bekker quoted in Collected Work of W. J. Fox, Charles Fox, Trübner & Co.; Volume VI, page #52:
      Only operative about some prodigious or præstigious things, and that only by vertue of a superstitious compact made with the divell, without or against all rules and orders of nature, art, or grace.