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

The body of Christ was regarded by Marcion merely as an "umbra", a "phantasma."

From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil

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 Richardson, Sarah J.

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