Crossword-Solution: PRESTIDIGITATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prestidigitation | n. | Legerdemain; sleight of hand; juggling. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “PRESTIDIGITATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| His feat | 1 answer |
| Sleight of hand or conjuring for magicians | 1 answer |
| *Sleight of hand | 9 answers |
| Tampering | 18 answers |
| Jugglery | 19 answers |
| Manipulation | 28 answers |
| conjuring | 31 answers |
| Handling | 34 answers |
| legerdemain | 36 answers |
| machination | 36 answers |
| Ruse | 37 answers |
| Orchestration | 51 answers |
| Manoeuvre | 59 answers |
| artfulness | 66 answers |
| Touching | 75 answers |
| fiddle | 78 answers |
| Stratagem | 79 answers |
| Magic | 81 answers |
| Deceit | 85 answers |
| Trickery | 89 answers |
| Deception | 97 answers |
| Trick | 111 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PRESTIDIGITATION (5)
The more modest place became the picture better; yet, as my eyes grew accustomed to the half-light, all the characteristic qualities came out--all the hesitations disguised as audacities, the tricks of prestidigitation by which, with such consummate skill, he managed to divert attention from the real business of the picture to some pretty irrelevance of detail.
But at length the Chancellor had finished his piece of prestidigitation, and, without waiting for an order, had countersigned the passport.
And this sort of prestidigitation, juggling the dangerous topic out of sight until it can be reintroduced with safety in an altered shape, is a piece of tactics among the true drawing-room queens.
Robert-Houdin has exhausted the subject of card-trickery, in connection with that prestidigitation which, it seems, all card-sharpers cultivate, the description of which, however, is by no means so entertaining as the visible performance.
The human voice is rarely heard within its walls save in connexion with corn, or the ambidextrous prestidigitation of the Wizard of the North.
Quotes with PRESTIDIGITATION (2)
Prestidigitation? You've got to be joking. No one says that.
[H.G. Wells said] that his method was "to trick his reader into an unwary concession to some plausible assumption and get on with his story while the illusion holds." Such prestidigitation is a characteristic ploy of science fiction: to make a nonexistent entity or impossible premise acceptable (often by scientific-sounding terms such as telepathy, extraterrestrial, cavorite, FTL speed) and then follow through with a genuinely realistic, logically coherent description of the effects and implica
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Appears in: WP.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1999).