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

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 Jerningham, Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry), Sir

“Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream.”

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

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 Buchanan, Neil

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