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

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

From Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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

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

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 Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)