legerdemain

By the power of his address and wit he invested the most insignificant feats of legerdemain with a peculiar charm.

This was a sort of sleight of hand, in the use of words; and was noticed, at the time, as "legerdemain."

Priests, however, tolerate no rivals, and permit no legerdemain but their own.

The medium had been warned by friends that Wilmann was an expert professor of legerdemain.