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

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

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

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

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney

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 Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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.