Citations:phantastick

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English citations of phantastick and phantaſtick

Adjective: antiquated spelling of fantastic[edit]

1659 1701 1827 1852
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  • 1659 C.E., Richard Brome, The Love‐ſick Court, in The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome, J Pearson; page #104:
    What do we ſeem ? we are no Hypocrites
    In fleſh or ſpirit ; no phantaſtick bodies
    Or ſhadows of humanity.
  • 1701 C.E., John Jones, The Myſteries of Opium Reveal’d; Chapter XV, page #200:
    From what is ſaid it will be obvious how duely to prepare and correct Opium, tho’ there has been no true Conception thereof hitherto, but meer groundleſs and phantaſtick Imaginations.
  • 1827 C.E., (author uncertain) The Gull’s Hornbook ; by T. Decker, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, William Blackwood and John Murray; Volume II, page #216:
    The one invents more phantastick fashions, than France hath worn since her first stone was laid ; the other more lickerish epicurean dishes, than were ever served up to Gallonius’s table.
  • 1852 C.E., “Burton”, quoted in Littell's Living Age, E. Littell & Company; Volume XXXV, №. 438, page #50:
    […] and if Democritus were alive now he should see strange alterations, a new company of counterfeit vizards, whiffers, Cumane asses, maskers, mummers, painted puppets, outsides, phantastick shadows, guls, monsters, giddy‐heads, butter‐flies. . . . .