ETYMOLOGY
from Latin praestigiatorius from praestigiat– , past participial stem of praestigiare prestigiate (vb.) to deceive by illusion as if by magic
+ Latin –ōrius –ory
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1588 – see EXAMPLE below
EXAMPLE
“…or finally of any their other colourable glosses, & hypocriticall subornations, in some like prestigiatory, and sophisticall veine?…”
From: A Discoursiue Probleme Concerning Prophesies
– John Harvey
ETYMOLOGY
from pebble (n.) + beached (adj.)
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1890 – see EXAMPLE below
EXAMPLE
“…He had arrived at a crisis of impecuniosity compared to which the small circumstance of being pebble-beached and stony-broke might be described as comparative affluence….”
From: A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant
Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian Slang, Pidgin English, Tinker’s Jargon and Other Irregular Phraseology
– Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland
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