phantasma
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Origin of phantasma
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1590–1600
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And yet, after a week that included a shooting, massive wildfires, and a doctored White House video presented as truth, Fleck’s exuberant phantasma made about as much sense as anything else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2018
The influence of the incomprehensible phantasma which hovered about Lord Byron has been more or less felt by all who ever approached him.
From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John
For a short while the flaming phantasma lingered firm and orb-like, while the space between itself and reality grew to a hand's breadth; then slowly deliquesced.
From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Douglas, Norman
They seemed like the Orama of the Greeks,—prophets while phantasma.
From Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Her ancient civility is gone, and her glory hath vanished as a phantasma.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
The phantasmata vary, but the invisible what?—or who?—remains the same.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
If you know anything of ecclesiastical Latin, the words noctium phantasmata may perhaps occur to you, and the whole field of demonology in connection with the Fraternity will open before you.
From Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer by Waite, Arthur Edward
He decided at last to extinguish it, and repeated the stanza he had already heard sung that evening in chapel: Procul recedant somnia Et noctium phantasmata, Hostemque nostrum comprime, Ne polluantur corpora.
From En Route by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
Somnambulism and other nocturnal deceptions frequently lend their aid to the formation of such phantasmata as are formed in this middle state, betwixt sleeping and waking.
From Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Scott, Walter, Sir
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