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• Dimness of vision. See Prestige.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

• pr[=e]-strik'shun, n. blindness. [L. præstring[)e]re, præstrictum, to draw tight.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson