prestidigitate

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As Ludlam wrote in an essay on performance, “I like to give myself up to a role: enter a trancelike state, burn energy, aggrandize through influence, juggle, prestidigitate and ventriloquize.”

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2014

I am a magician, and one or two little things have happened of late to make me wish to prestidigitate in public.

From The Water Ghost and Others by Bangs, John Kendrick