Meanings
adjectivepræstigious (comparative more præstigious, superlative most præstigious)
comparative more præstigious · superlative most præstigious
- archaicArchaic form of prestigious.
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.
1695, Balthasar Bekker quoted in Collected Work of W. J. Fox, Charles Fox, Trübner & Co.; Volume VI, page #52
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