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fantastical, a. and n.|fænˈtæstɪkəl|
[f. fantastic a. and n. + -al1.]
A. adj.
†1. = fantastic a. 1. Obs.
αc1485Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 1545 My wordes wer not fantasticall..I told youe no lesinge. 1529More Conf. agst. Trib. ii. Wks. 1182/2 With this fantastical fear of hers, I wold be loth to haue her in myne house. c1530Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 43 Than me thynkithe y see youre likenes: Hit is nat so, it is fantasticalle. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 61 Our Pains are real Things, and all Our Pleasures but fantastical.
βa1533Frith Disput. Purgat. (1829) 160 A place that..more properly confuteth this phantastical purgatory, than doth this same text. 1684Burnet Th. Earth ii. 100 When anything great is represented to us, it appears phantastical. 1728T. Sheridan Persius vi. (1739) 99 note, Tertullian..runs the phantastical Genealogy thus.
†b. Of opinions: Irrational, baseless. (Passing into sense 6.) Obs.
αa1546Joye in Gardiner Declar. Art. Joye (1546) 53 He..conceyueth a certayne fantasticall opinion therof [of fayth]. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) II. i. iii. §2. 52 Which only false Religion or fantastical Opinion..is able to effect.
β1555Eden Decades Pref. to Rdr. (Arb.) 53 Mys⁓shapened with phantastical opinions. 1599Hayward 1st Pt. Hen. IV 91 He said that the lawes of the realme were in his head..by reason of which phantasticall opinion, he destroyed noblemen.
†2. = fantastic 2. Chiefly in fantastical body in reference to the heresy of the Docetæ. Obs.
α1533Frith Answ. More (1829) 174 Fantastical apparitions. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) III. 308 Ye make of it [the Sacrament] a thing so fantastical, that ye imagine a Body without Flesh. 1728Earbery tr. Burnet's St. Dead I. 220 That the Body of Christ upon Earth was a fantastical one, as the Gnosticks held.
β1555Ridley Wks. 200 Marcion..said that Christ had but a phantastical body. 1642R. Carpenter Experience ii. vii. 185 Hee did not take a phantasticall body in the Incarnation.
†b. Of colours: = emphatical 5. Obs.
1666Hooke Microgr. 168 These colours are onely fantastical ones. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn., Phantastical Colours, such as are exhibited by the Rainbow, Triangular Glass Prism, the Surface of very thin Muscovy Glass, &c.
†3. = fantastic a. 3. Obs.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 125 His lyghtes be euer eyther fantasticall or els corporall. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. viii. (Arb.) 35 Euen so is the phantasticall part of man..a representer of the best images..to the soule. 1647H. More Song of Soul ii. ii. ii. xxxv, The Orb Phantastick must exert All life phantasticall.
†b. Pertaining to the passion of love. See fancy 8 b. Obs. rare—1.
1594H. Willobie in Shaks. C. Praise 7 Sodenly infected with the contagion of a fantasticall fit.
4. = fantastic 4.
α1531Elyot Gov. i. i, They be nat in commune (as fantasticall foles wolde haue all thyngs). 1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxxi. (1612) 157 Loue is Fantasticall in Women. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 671 The herne is..very fantasticall, as not giuen to stay in any place, but such as pleaseth him verie well. 1702Eng. Theophrast. 311 The gratifying of a fantastical Appetite. 1791Hamilton Berthollet's Dyeing II. ii. vi. 307 The fantastical changes of the fashion. 1862Mrs. Oliphant Last Mortimers I. v. 27 A pretty fantastical young girl.
β1555Eden Decades 314 Many iudged hym phantasticall. 1621–51Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. ii. 319 An affected phantastical carriage. 1693Sir T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 129 The..vain and phantastical abuse of this Stinking Weed. 1711Steele Spect. No. 30 ⁋2 The Oxonians are phantastical now they are Lovers.
†5. = fantastic 5. Obs.
a1618Raleigh Mahomet (1637) 24 The care and use of his fantasticall Law.
6. = fantastic 6.
α1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. i. 79 The first suite is hot and hasty like a Scotch jigge (and full as fantasticall). 1789Burney Hist. Mus. III. ii. 111 Canons..in triangular and other fantastical forms. 1830D'Israeli Chas. I, III. viii. 177 A portrait which, however fantastical, may still bear some remarkable resemblances.
βa1613Overbury A Wife (1638) 166 Our new phantasticall building. 1711Steele Spect. No. 151 ⁋5 An Occasion wherein Vice makes so phantastical a Figure.
†B. n. One who has fanciful ideas or notions.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. viii. (Arb.) 34 Who so is studious in th' Arte [of Poesie]..they call him in disdayne a phantasticall. 1616J. Deacon Tobacco tortured 57 Alas poore Tobacco..thou that hast bene hitherto accompted..the Fantasticals foretresse. |