单词 | prestigiation |
释义 | prestigiationn. Now rare. The practice of sorcery or magic; deception or delusion by such practice; conjuring, prestidigitation; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] wielingeOE wielOE craftOE witchcraftOE witchdomOE telingc1230 demerlaykc1275 dweomercraeftc1275 sorcerya1300 magicc1387 maleficec1390 jugglerya1400 precination1503 witchery1546 maleficiousness1547 prestigiation?c1550 wizardry1583 magie1592 dark art1613 prestigion1635 conjurement1645 magomancy1652 wizardism1682 thaumaturgy1727 warlockry1818 witchwork1827 brujería1838 wizardship1882 trolldom1891 mojo1923 pixie dust1951 witchering1956 old religion1964 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] colea1307 jugglingc1380 tregetryc1380 jugglerya1400 tregettingc1440 legerdemaina1450 jocularya1500 conveyance1531 prestigiation?c1550 conjuring1577 figgum1631 prestigion1635 sleight of handa1640 hocus-pocus1647 sleight1664 jugglementa1708 thaumaturgy1727 conjurationa1734 ventriloquism1797 magic1831 prestidigitation1841 hocus1854 conjury1855 ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. ii. 83 Least thei might..bee envegeled with the sorceres and prestigiation [L. praestigiis] of devels. 1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. xxiii. 37 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) Examples..of fascinations, incantations, prestigiations, of philtres, spells, charmes, sorceries, characters and such like. a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 338 If such a thing come to pass by the Devil's mists and devices, then it is præstigiation or delusion. 1744 J. Ralph Astrologer i. i. 14 I mean the Art of Prestigiation, or making one Object pass for another. 1863 J. P. Thompson Sergeant's Memorial 43 His ready fingers..would acquire the complicated arts of prestigiation. 1885 St. James's Gaz. 20 June At Piccadilly Hall..To-day. Séances of Prestigiation, Mesmerism, and Thought Transmission. 1924 C. H. Haskins Stud. Hist. Mediaeval Sci. xiii. 286 Those magic arts..which no Christian can rightly practise—geomancy, hydromancy,..incantations, prestigiation, etc. 1963 C. Jacobson & B. Grundfest Schoepf tr. C. Lévi-Strauss Structural Anthropol. 175 His narrative recounts the details of his first lessons, a curious mixture of pantomime, prestigiation and empirical knowledge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1550 |
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