The faculty of persuading the world at large to consider that you are in the right is called your "prestige," a word closely connected with the term "prestidigitation,"-if not in derivation, most certainly in meaning.
"Paul Patoff"
F. Marion Crawford
A perfect technic is more than a wonderful power of prestidigitation, or facility in the manipulation of an instrument.
"Memories of a Musical Life"
William Mason
Talking over his shoulder all the while, Mr. Vandeleur poured out two cups of the brown stimulant, and then, by a rapid act of prestidigitation, emptied the contents of a tiny phial into the smaller of the two.
"New-Arabian-Nights"
Stevenson, Robert Louis