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phantasiast|fænˈteɪzɪæst|
[ad. eccl. Gr. ϕαντασιασταί, pl. of ϕαντασιαστής, f. ϕαντασία appearance: see fantasy.]
1. Eccl. Hist. A name given to those of the Docetæ (also called Phantasiodocetæ, ϕαντασιοδοκηταί) who held that Christ's body was only a phantasm, not a material substance.
1680Baxter Answ. Stillingfl. xxxiv. 57 Phantasiasts. 1852Bp. Forbes Nicene Cr. 221 The Docetae, or Phantasiasts, and those who asserted our Lord was only in appearance dead. 1863Longfellow Wayside Inn i. Interlude v. 51 The creed of the Phantasiasts, For whom..Christ [was but] a phantom crucified!
2. One who deals in or treats of phantasies.
1855Smedley, etc. Occult Sc. 88 Ben Jonson, who had some experience as a phantasiast, thus invokes the fairer creations of this power in his ‘Vision of Delight’.
Hence phantasiˈastic a., of or characteristic of the Phantasiasts; of the nature of a phantasm.
1826G. S. Faber Diffic. Romanism (1853) 102 note, The same line of argument is adopted by Tertullian against Marcion and his phantasiastic brethren. 1838― Inquiry 176 The Manichèans..denied that Christ had any proper material body; the form, which was seen, having been purely phantasiastic. |