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prestigious, a.|prɛˈstɪdʒəs, prɛˈstiːdʒəs|
Also 7 præ-.
[ad. late L. præstigiōsus full of tricks, deceitful, f. præstigi-um prestige + -ous. So F. prestigieux (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) illusive, using charms.]
1. Practising juggling or legerdemain; of the nature of or characterized by juggling or magic; cheating, deluding, deceitful; deceptive, illusory. Now rare.
1546Bale Eng. Votaries i. (1550) 48 b, Ashamed are not these prestygiouse Papystes, to vtter it in their storyes and reade it in their Sayntes legendes. 1607Dekker Whore of Babylon Wks. 1873 II. 195 That inchantresse..by prestigious trickes in sorcerie, Has raiz'd a base impostor. a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 116 As in the Mines prestigious Spirits lurk, And while the Miners sleep, seem hard at work. 1884Swinburne in 19th Cent. May 771 The prestigious influence which turned the heads and perverted the hearts of the Byrons and the Hazlitts of his day. 1887T. Child in Contemp. Rev. May 713 The grandiose language, the ringing rhymes, and the prestigious metaphors. 1957Eng. Lang. Teaching XII. i. 5 Ogden, whose prestigious virtuosity in paraphrase had enabled him to work Basic English out. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Jan. 32/3 For the period of nearly five years during which he remained as Prime Minister after the war he was..engaged in promoting policies which were actively disliked, or accepted reluctantly, by a majority of his supporters. This was the essential nature of the prestigious balancing act which he was constantly obliged to perform.
2. Having, showing, or conferring prestige (sense 2).
In this sense many prefer to use prestigeful a. or some other adjective.
1913Conrad Chance i. iii. 76 ‘You have had all these immense sums... What have I had out of them?’ It was perfectly true. He had had nothing out of them—nothing of the prestigious or the desirable things of the earth. 1958Economist 25 Oct. (Suppl.) 19/1 But then came a form of competition that the American automobile industry had never envisaged—a competition from other industries for the consumer's dollar spent on prestigious purchases. 1960Time & Tide 8 Oct. 1179/1 The commercial [television] companies agreed—..to give ITN enough cash for its extremely prestigious and worthy coverage of the United Nations. 1963Listener 18 Apr. 656/2 Once established in these prestigious places men leave only if they have to. 1967G. Steiner Lang. & Silence 72 Recent French linguistic philosophy also assigns a special function and prestigious authority to silence. 1969Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 5 Sept. 32/1 Those hotels such as every prestigious capital needs. 1970B. M. H. Strang Hist. English 75 Of course, before 1770, not everyone was confined to the English of his town or village unless he hiked or hacked to another; many were exposed to the highly prestigious and influential written form. 1973Oxf. Univ. Gaz. CIII. Suppl. 5. 33 The small but prestigious collection of German drawings in the Department. 1974Times 27 Apr. 15/5 A career in pure science is still more socially prestigious, in Britain, than one in engineering or in applied science. 1975Physics Bull. May 219/3 Halley was already quite distinguished, established as the Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford (a prestigious position).
Hence preˈstigiously adv.; preˈstigiousness.
1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 208 He..that was prestigiously besieged, and inuisibly vndermined with that weapon of weapons. 1646Gaule Cases Consc. 115 There is nothing but præstigiousnesse of Forme, End, Effect. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 437 Their being able to make a consecrated wafer appear to be the very Body and Person of Christ is such a piece of prestigiousness as has no parellel. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xxv. 459 We cannot be so prestigiously Impudent, as to pretend to the World..that these our Pills will Cure all diseases. 1962Listener 27 Dec. 1098/1 Art has become a commodity, albeit a highly prestigious one. But it is its very ‘prestigiousness’ that has brought upon its none too sturdy back the hordes of P.R.O.s and promoters. 1968J. M. Ziman Public Knowl. vi. 118 He uses the standard technical words and phrases of the subject, not..to associate himself prestigiously with his would-be colleagues. |