Citations:præstiges

Noun: plural form of

 * 1825, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Encyclopædia of Antiquities, John Nichols and Son; Volume II of II, Chapter XV, page #666:
 * They applied themselves to astrology, divination, magick, and all the præstiges which accompany it.
 * 1828, Algernon Herbert quoting Semiramis in Nimrod; Volume II, Chapter II, page #175:
 * She published this declaration, “ I have given orders to my gods to lick the wounds of Aræus, and resuscitate him from the dead ;”  and at the same time she really “ did hope to recal Aræus to life by her magical præstiges, so mad wad she with libidinous desire.”