phantasma
Americannoun
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phantasmata
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Etymology
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
And yet for very sorriness I cannot own the weird phantasma real!
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
The body of Christ was regarded by Marcion merely as an "umbra", a "phantasma."
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin
With eyes tight closed one may conjure up the phantasma of green leaves waving and of meadows knee-deep with lush grasses and starred with ox-eyes.
From The Gates of Chance by Van Tassel Sutphen
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 Sir Walter Scott
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 J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
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 Arthur Edward Waite
The phantasmata vary, but the invisible what?—or who?—remains the same.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
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