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1 prestidigitation -- rank: 1000

prestidigitation definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: manual dexterity in the execution of tricks [syn: prestidigitation, sleight of hand] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: French, from ... sleight of hand, legerdemain • prestidigitator noun Webster's 1913 Dictionary Prestidigitation Pres`ti*dig`i*ta"tion, n. Legerdemain; sleight of ...

2 sleight of hand -- rank: 535

... n 1: manual dexterity in the execution of tricks [syn: prestidigitation, sleight of hand] Merriam Webster's Date: 1593 1. a ... Chaucer. ``The juggler's sleight.'' --Hudibras. Sleight of hand, legerdemain; prestidigitation. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (sleights of hand) Sleight of hand ... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms Legerdemain, hocus-pocus, jugglery, prestidigitation. Moby Thesaurus Prospero, airiness, appearance, artful dodge, artifice, bag of ... act, magic show, magician, monkey business, mumbo jumbo, pass, ploy, prestidigitation, ruse, scheme, scurvy trick, seeming, semblance, shift, show, simulacrum, sleight ...

3 prestidigitator -- rank: 364

... magician, prestidigitator, conjurer, conjuror, illusionist] Merriam Webster's noun see prestidigitation Oxford Reference Dictionary n. formal a conjuror. Derivatives: prestidigitation n. Etymology: F prestidigitateur f. preste nimble (as PRESTO) + L ...

4 Prestigiation -- rank: 230

... to deceive by juggling tricks, fr. praestigae. See Prestige.] Legerdemain; prestidigitation. [Obs.]

5 jugglery -- rank: 230

... guile"). Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Legerdemain, prestidigitation, sleight of hand. 2. Trickery, imposture, deceit.

6 illusionist -- rank: 230

... juggler, mage, magian, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, magus, prestidigitation, prestidigitator, seeming, semblance, show, simulacrum, sleight of hand, sleight-of ...

7 idealization -- rank: 230

... impracticality, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, play of fancy, prestidigitation, quixotism, quixotry, romance, romanticism, seeming, semblance, show, simulacrum, sleight of ...

8 Immateriality -- rank: 230

... oni, pettiness, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, picayune, picayunishness, pokiness, poltergeist, presence, prestidigitation, puniness, rareness, rarity, revenant, secondariness, secrecy, seeming, semblance, separateness, shade ...

9 HOCUS POCUS -- rank: 230

... open sesame, pack of nonsense, palaver, pass, ploy, prate, prattle, prestidigitation, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, ruse, scheme, scurvy trick, shift ...

10 hocus-pocus -- rank: 230

... incantation, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, legerdemain, magic, mischief, mumbo-jumbo, nonsense, prestidigitation, rigmarole, sleight of hand, swindle, trick, trickery

11 hanky panky -- rank: 230

... jugglery, juggling, legerdemain, liaison, love affair, monkey business, mumbo jumbo, prestidigitation, romance, romantic tie, sleight of hand, triangle, trickery, unfaithfulness

12 mumbo jumbo -- rank: 230

... palaver, patois, patter, periapt, perplexity, philter, phraseology, phylactery, prate, prattle, prestidigitation, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, scarab, scarabaeus, scarabee, scatology, shapelessness ...

13 Magician -- rank: 230

... musician, nautch girl, necromancer, past master, peeler, performer, practiced hand, prestidigitation, prestidigitator, prodigy, prophet, public entertainer, sage, satanist, seeming, seer, semblance ...

14 Magic -- rank: 230

... mystique, natural magic, necromancy, necromantic, nimbus, numinousness, obeah, occult, occultism, prestidigitation, prodigious, radiance, remarkable, resplendence, resplendency, rune, satanism, seeming, semblance, shamanism ...

15 false show -- rank: 230

... mere show, meretriciousness, ostentation, outward show, playacting, pose, posing, posture, prestidigitation, pretense, pretension, pretext, prunes and prisms, public image, put-on ...