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 The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John

These thousand images, indeed, were but one; and yet the one was a thousand, a sort of uni-multiplex phantasma, which will be very intelligible to some understandings.

From Headlong Hall by Peacock, Thomas Love

They seemed like the Orama of the Greeks,—prophets while phantasma.

From Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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