prestigiator

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English

Etymology

From Latin praestigiator.

Noun

prestigiator (plural prestigiators)

  1. (obsolete) A conjurer; a prestidigitator.
    • 1660, H More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; , London: J Flesher, for W 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 .

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