Definition of "prestidigitator" [pres•ti•dig•i•ta•tor]

• One who performs feats of prestidigitation, a sleight-of-hand artist, a magician (noun)

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• "In the ring on the right, we have our gifted prestidigitator, Mr. John Shannon."
• "Well-meaning pedants may wonder why so gifted a verbal prestidigitator as Mr. Ives has resorted so often to imperfect rhymes, each one of which diminishes the hectic glitter of the play's verbal surface by a tiny but measurable increment."
• "Belief is an ephemeral and passive condition, based on submission to the prestidigitator through the suspension of reason, often in the face of obvious evidence of an opposite intention, rather like the empty, impotent vessel of its relative, hope."