Definitions
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- verb To perform
magic with thehands or usingsleight of hand .
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Examples
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I find John Clarke's points cogent and salacious, and it would ill behoove any minion of the Little-Rowling cabal to prestidigitate further regarding their ultimate cravenitude to that pernicious influence.
Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again 2010
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It's one thing to prestidigitate, to prevaricate, even to dissemble but when you leave the bounds of reality and call something clean which even a child knows is dirty, sooty, smoky is quite another.
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PLAIN words are more forceful than words less commonly used -- _juggle_ has more vigor than _prestidigitate_.
The Art of Public Speaking Dale Carnagey 1906
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I am a magician, and one or two little things have happened of late to make me wish to prestidigitate in public.
The Water Ghost and Others John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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Are you coming to TAM 7, and can you sing, dance, juggle, contort, do a light-sabre routine, tumble, prestidigitate, or bend spoons with the power of your mind alone?
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