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

Marks of some outward impression were yet visible on her hand, whether from causes less occult than the moving phantasma of the mind, is a question that would resist all our powers of solution.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

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

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 Zeitlin, Jacob

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