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fantastically, adv.|fænˈtæstɪkəlɪ|
Also 6–7 phantastically.
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
†1. Through the exercise of the fancy or imagination. Obs.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 124 b, Somtyme as it were an aungell of lyght: somtyme visybly, somtyme fantastically. 1691–8Norris Pract. Disc. (1711) III. 121 My Soul fantastically joins with it.
†2. In a phantasmal or unreal manner. Obs.
1543Becon New Year's Gift Early Wks. (1843) 318 All this was not fantastically done, but truly and unfeignedly. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 64 Our Lord suffered in very deed, and not phantastically to the appearance onely.
†3. Fabulously, fictitiously. Obs.
1547J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes B viij a, As Welshe and Scottishe Poetes, haue phantastically fayned. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. I. 91/1 Arthur, of whom the trifling tales of the Britains..fantasticallie do..report woonders.
4. According to one's fancy; capriciously, arbitrarily.
1547–64Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) 63 He cannot be a true seruer of God, which serueth Him..fantastically, and in hipocrisie. 1663Cowley Disc. Govt. O. Cromwell Wks. (1669) 59 Though it may seem to some fantastically, yet was it wisely done. 1701Grew Cosm. Sacra ii. iv, One cannot so much as fantastically choose, even or odd. 1829I. Taylor Enthus. iv. (1867) 79 The righteous God deals with man⁓kind not fantastically. 1885Law Times LXXIX. 78/1 Any fantastically coined word.
5. In a fanciful or odd manner; grotesquely, oddly, strangely.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 334 A forked Radish, with a Head fantastically caru'd vpon it. 1662J. Davies Voy. Ambass. 129 Wooden hats, fantastically painted. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 747 Beads and feathers, fantastically arranged. 1813Byron Giaour 302 The silver dew In whirls fantastically flew. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos I. xlii. 365 Their dress was..fantastically gay.
Add:[5.] b. To a fantastic degree; extremely, extravagantly. colloq.
1923Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Apr. 247/1 Dr. Scripture is, I think, fantastically wrong in supposing that prosody has hitherto put its problem on a ‘typographical basis’. 1931Dylan Thomas Poems (1971) 14 The stream's fantastically hard. 1958Listener 18 Dec. 1040/1 A picture of a girl maybe, fantastically beautiful. 1970Y. Carter Mr. Campion's Falcon xxi. 155, I want to grovel fantastically. I'm afraid I really do need help. |