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phantasmal, a.|fænˈtæzməl|
[f. phantasm or phantasma + -al1.]
Of the nature of a phantasm; spectral; having no material existence, unreal, imaginary; passing like a phantasm.
1813Shelley Q. Mab vi. 192 All that chequers the phantasmal scene That floats before our eyes in wavering light. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. vii. (1882) 56 The phantasmal chaos of association. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 230 No confirmation has been found for the story, fathered on a certain phantasmal Mr. Buckley. 1880Shorthouse J. Inglesant (1882) II. xvi. 320 With such phantasmal imaginations he filled Inglesant's ears.
b. Psychics: see phantasm 2 b.
1886Gurney, etc. Phantasms of Living I. Introd. 65 Between the moment of death and the phantasmal announcement thereof to a distant friend.
Hence phantasˈmalian a., relating to what is phantasmal; phantasˈmality, the quality of being phantasmal.
1841Lytton Nt. & Morn. iii. viii, The idea grows up, a horrid phantasmalian monomania. 1875Lewes Probl. Life & Mind II. ii. ii. §38. 45 Between the reality of our waking sensations, and the phantasmality of our dream perceptions..the contrast is marked. 1903Critic XLIII. 354/1 His is the spirit that cries for delivery from the tyranny of his senses, the phantasmality of the world. |