prestidigitatorialadj.
/prɛstᵻˌdɪdʒᵻtəˈtɔːrɪəl/, U.S. /prɛstəˌdɪdʒətəˈtɔriəl/ Done by prestidigitation; resembling a conjuring trick.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [adjective]
juggling?1531
sleight1533
prestigious?1534
juggled1536
conjuring1552
legerdemain1576
prestigiatory1588
hocus-pocus1668
presto1826
prestidigital1856
prestidigitatory1860
prestidigitatorial1861
presto changeo1923
1861 Daily Tel. 22 Oct. 5/6 He has managed his cards well if he has substituted prestidigitatorial feats for operatic.
1918 Deming (New Mexico) Headlight 7 June 4/1 These acrimonious critics demanded that the United States whittle rifles out of the air and by some sort of prestidigitorial art transform a million civilians into full-trained soldiers between the sinking and the rising of the sun.
1947 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 7 16 The prestidigitatorial wizard who had crowned a career of astounding performances by consummately destroying everything he had done.
1997 Russ. Rev. 56 401 After the unmasking of prestidigitatorial lies, elementary truths surface again.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1861