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
Thou hast imprinted on our being, O God, such singular phantasma of inconsequence, and hast made to rise such strange phenomena.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
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
Does the broken mirror within reflect back the countenance of real things, or shadows and shapes, crossed, mingled, and bewildered,—the phantasma of a sick man's dreams?
From The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Waken her, Burbon, and this loving charme, Which now hath led your sences prisoner, Will vanish, and her speach, full of reproofe, Beget a new phantasma all of hate.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
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
The phantasmata vary, but the invisible what?—or who?—remains the same.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
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
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