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A Middle English form of priest. pre stable (pres'ta-bl), a. ), a. [ prestationt (pres-tāʼshon), n. [F. prestation = Sp. prest a cion = Pg. prest ação = 1t. prest a zione, IMG:content-0914.png:[blocks in formation] Those grants he clogged with heavy feudal services and payments or prestations which no one dared refuse. Ru ell , Hist. Modern Europe, I. 290. prester1 (pres'tėr), n . [ prester , prestre , F. prêtre , priest: see priest , presbyter.] A priest: often used in old writers as the title of a supposed Christian king and priest ( Prester John) of a medieval kingdom. The belief in the existence of such a ruler in some undetermined part of Asia appeared in the twelfth century. From the fourteenth century seat of the supposed Prester John was placed in Aby in i a, and this belief was held down to the close of the middle ages. In the East syde of Afrike, beneth the redde eth the greate and myghtye Emperour and Chrystian kynge Prester Iohan, well knowen to the Portugales in theyr vyages to Calicut. R. Eden (First Books on America, ed. Arber, p. 374). More than twenty years later, when the first book on Aby in i a was composed - that of Alvarez - the title constantly and as a matter of course designating the king of Aby in i a is " Prester John," or simply "the Preste ." Encyc. Brit ., XIX. 718. prester2+ (pres'ter) (pres'tèr), n. [ ternal (pre-stérnal), al), a. [ pre sternal Howell , Letters, iii. 23. prestigiations! prestigiator (pres-tij'i-a-tor), n. [ This cunning prestigiator [the devil] took the advantage of so high a place to set off his representations the more lively. Dr. H. More , Mystery of Godline (1660), p. 105. prestigiatorył (pres-tij'i-ā-to-ri), a . [ prest i giate + -ory .] Juggling; consisting of tricks or impostures . = We have an art call'd præstigiatory , That deals with spirits, and intelligences Of meaner office and condition. T. Tomkis (3), Albumazar, i. 7.