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

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

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

The sudden presence of a raven at a bridal banquet could scarcely have been a greater phantasma.

From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John

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

II.36 phantasma: a vision of things that are not.

From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton