prestidigitation

3 definitions found

prestidigitation - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Prestidigitation \Pres`ti*dig`i*ta"tion\, n.
     Legerdemain; sleight of hand; juggling.
     [1913 Webster]

prestidigitation - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  prestidigitation
      n 1: manual dexterity in the execution of tricks [syn:
           prestidigitation, sleight of hand]

prestidigitation - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "prestidigitation":
     Prospero, airiness, appearance, conjuration, delusiveness,
     escamotage, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light,
     false show, falseness, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, hokey-pokey,
     idealization, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness,
     immateriality, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, juggling, legerdemain,
     magic, magic act, magic show, magician, monkey business,
     mumbo jumbo, seeming, semblance, show, simulacrum, sleight of hand,
     sorcerer, sorcery, specious appearance, trickery, unactuality,
     unreality, unsubstantiality