phantasma

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 Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

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

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin

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

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 Sarah J. Richardson

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

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

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