præstigious

Adjective

 * 1) * 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.
 * 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.