Præstigious

Full definition of præstigious

1695, Balthasar Bekker quoted in Collected Work of W. J. Fox, Charles Fox, Trübner & Co.; Volume VI, page #52:Only operative about some prodigious or præstigious things, and that only by vertue of a superstitious compact made with the divell, without or against all rules and orders of nature, art, or grace.