phantasma
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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
Fourthly, speculations about phantasma, assumptio naturæ humanæ, transmutatio, mixtura, duæ naturæ, etc., were necessarily associated with these notions.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
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 Hamilton Wright Mabie
II.36 phantasma: a vision of things that are not.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black
The influence of the incomprehensible phantasma which hovered about Lord Byron has been more or less felt by all who ever approached him.
From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Sir Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry) Jerningham
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
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
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
