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单词 prestidigitator
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prestidigitatorn.

Brit. /ˌprɛstᵻˈdɪdʒᵻteɪtə/, U.S. /ˌprɛstəˈdɪdʒəˌteɪdər/
Forms: 1700s– prestidigitator, 1800s– prestidigitateur Brit. /ˌprɛstᵻˌdɪ(d)ʒᵻtəˈtəː/, U.S. /ˌprɛstəˌdɪdʒədəˈtər/.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French, combined with a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Or (ii) a borrowing from Italian, combined with a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: French preste , Italian presto , Latin digitus , -ator suffix.
Etymology: < French preste nimble (second half of the 15th cent. in Middle French) or its etymon Italian presto presto adj. + classical Latin digitus finger (see digit n.) + -ator suffix, perhaps after prestigiator n. Compare French prestidigitateur (1823), Italian prestidigitatore (1835; < French).In form prestidigitateur after the French word.
A person who practises sleight of hand or legerdemain; a conjuror; a juggler. Also in extended use.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer
jugglera1100
tregetour1340
hey-passa1593
prestigiator1595
baffler1606
feat-worker1617
hocus-pocus1624
hocus1647
chirosophist1652
fascinator1677
legerdemain1696
prestidigitator1712
conjurer1727
sleight-of-hand man1757
nimble-fingers1781
sleight-of-hand professor1801
legerdemainist1830
magician1834
illusionist1850
jongleura1851
wizard1859
deceptionist1883
mentalist1906
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > practitioner > who bamboozles
banterer1709
bamboozler1712
mystery-monger1772
mystifier1821
mystificator1823
mystifica1849
prestidigitator1870
1712 Ld. Shaftesbury Second Characters (1914) IV. 113 The passion of those who run after monsters in fairies and the Θαυματοποιοί Prestidigitators.
a1843 in R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 603/1 De M. G. Ferizer, the celebrated enchanter..prestidigitateur, and author of several experiments adapted to public amusement.
1859 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. J. E. Robert-Houdin Mem. viii. 166–7 The learning of the conjuror—I beg pardon, prestidigitator... This word, as well as Prestidigitation, due to the same author, were soon seized upon by Jules de Rovère's rivals.
1870 M. D. Conway Earthward Pilgrimage xvi. 201 Whether our young men should turn themselves into intellectual prestidigitateurs.
1879 S. Baring-Gould Germany I. 392 A prestidigitator can work magic with his nimble fingers.
1905 Contemp. Rev. June 877 The repeated successes of the prestidigitator who is at the head of its Government.
1926 Lancaster (Ohio) Daily Eagle 17 May 4/6 From under his coat, in the manner of a prestidigitator, he produced a pair of pink slippers with pretty silver buckles.
1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 5 Oct. 4/1 He..spots with fine accuracy those moments when Nabokov is being..blinded for his own, admittedly consummate skill as a verbal prestidigitator.
2005 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 16 Sept. g2 A counterfeit Chinese prestidigitator whose specialty was catching bullets in his teeth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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