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
Serpents would too often glide across the table around which the gay company, himself a member, were assembled; or some other sudden and more appalling change scatter into fragments the bright phantasma of his dreams.
From The Home Mission by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
Thoughts of painful, almost chaotic bewilderment indeed, so chased each other across his mind as to render the scene around him indistinct, the many faces and eager voices like the phantasma of a dream.
From The Vale of Cedars by Grace Aguilar
Marks of some outward impression were yet visible on her hand, whether from causes less occult than the moving phantasma of the mind, is a question that would resist all our powers of solution.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
Next morning at breakfast, the inquisitor apologized for the disturbance, and said the boy's alarm proceeded from a phantasma animi,—phantom of the imagination.
From Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal by Sarah J. Richardson
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
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
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
The phantasmata vary, but the invisible what?—or who?—remains the same.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
