fantasyphantasyn.

/ˈfæntəsɪ/

Forms: α. Middle English–1600s fantasi(e, -ye, -azie, -aisie, -aysie, -esi(e, -esy(e, -essy, (Middle English fantsy, fayntasie, feintasy), Middle English–1500s fantosy, 1500s–1600s fantacie, fantacy, Middle English– fantasy. β. 1500s–1700s phantasie, (1500s -esie, 1500s–1600s phant'sie, -'sy), 1500s– phantasy.

Etymology: < Old French fantasie (French fantaisie), (= Provencal fantazia, Spanish, Portuguese fantasía, Italian fantasia), < Latin phantasia, < Greek ϕαντασία lit. ‘a making visible’, < ϕαντάζειν to make visible, < ϕαίνειν to show. The senses of ϕαντασία from which the senses of the word in the modern languages are developed are: 1. appearance, in late Greek especially spectral apparition, phantom (so Latin phantasia in Vulgate); 2. the mental process or faculty of sensuous perception; 3. the faculty of imagination. These senses passed through Old French into English, together with others (as delusive fancy, false or unfounded notion, caprice, etc.) which had been developed in late Latin, Romanic, or French. The shortened form fancy n. and adj., which apparently originated in the 15th cent., had in the time of Shakespeare become more or less differentiated in sense. After the revival of Greek learning, the longer form was often spelt phantasy, and its meaning was influenced by the Greek etymon. In modern use fantasy and phantasy, in spite of their identity in sound and in ultimate etymology, tend to be apprehended as separate words, the predominant sense of the former being ‘caprice, whim, fanciful invention’, while that of the latter is ‘imagination, visionary notion’.

1. In scholastic psychology:

†a. Mental apprehension of an object of perception; the faculty by which this is performed. Obs.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > [noun]

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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > process of perception > [noun] > in Scholastic Psychology

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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > process of perception > [noun] > in Scholastic Psychology > faculty of

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a1382 Oresme in Meunier Ess. sur Oresme 179 Il entent par fantasie apprehension ou cognoissance sensitive des choses presentes.]

α. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 113 Þat place [þe brayn] is propre instrument of ymagynacioun þe which resceyveþ þinges þat comprehendiþ of fantasie [L. res a phantasia comprehensas].1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xxiv. ii, These are the v. wyttes remeuing inwardly..common wytte..ymaginacyon, Fantasy, and estymacyon..And memory.1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. i. 76 Sense perceiveth sweetness by tast or smell, light and pulchritude by sight and fantasie.β. a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1664) 126 According to the diversity of the eye, which offereth it unto the phantasie.1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. iv. 13 It is..likely, that all living creatures which have eye-balls, oblique and narrow,..have a peculiar phantasie of objects.1669 A. Browne Ars Pictoria (1675) 40 Light..is the cause..whereby coloured things are seen, whose Shapes and Images pass to the phantasie.

†b. The image impressed on the mind by an object of sense. Obs.

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > image held in memory > [noun]

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c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. (1866) 14 When the resone es cleryde fra all..fygours and fantasyes of creatures.

1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xi. 155 Memorie supplieth none other office..than..to preserue the figures and fantasies of things.

†2. A spectral apparition, phantom; an illusory appearance. Obs.

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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun]

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > deceptive fancy or illusion > [noun]

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [noun] > an optical illusion > vision or apparition

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c1325 Song of Yesterday 30 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 134 Þis worldly blis. Is but a fykel fantasy.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ix. xxv. 362 Moo fantasyes ben seen by nyghte than by daye.

1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 46 Somme fantasie of Fiton hath marrid thi mynde.

c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. xviii. 31 Þe fantasy þus of hys Dreme Movyd hym mast to sla hys Eme.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 172 Phantosme, a fantosy.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxi. 64 All is but fantesey and enchauntementes.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. III. 365 Trowand that tyme it wes ane phantasie.

a1583 E. Grindal Remains (1843) (modernized text) 59 No bread..but certain fantasies of white and round.

a. Delusive imagination, hallucination; the fact or habit of deluding oneself by imaginary perceptions or reminiscences. ? Obs.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > deceptive fancy or illusion > [noun] > delusive habit or state

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α.

1340–70 Alisaunder 384 For fere, ne fantasie faile they nolde.

c1374 Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 1535 This fool of fantasie [sc. Cassandra].

1574 R. Scot Perfite Platf. of Hoppe Garden (1578) 60 Such as haue Mountaynes in fantasie and beggery in possession.

1603 Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 52 You tremble and looke pale, Is not this something more then fantasie?

1658 S. Simpson 2 Bks. i. ix. 66 They thought it was but meer a fantasie, and imagination.

β. ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye To Rdr. sig. a2, Makinge..the eldres..to wandre in phantasyes.1654 Case of Commonwealth 50 If we falter, or be mis-led through phant'sie.1675 T. Brooks Word in Season 20 in Paradice Opened Raising such a phantasy in the Lyons that they looked upon Daniel..as on one, that was a friend unto them.1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. i. 2 He will..be sometimes misled by his own phantasy.

b. A day-dream arising from conscious or unconscious wishes or attitudes.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [noun]

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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > need as motivation > [noun] > daydream

fantasy1926

1926 G. Coster Psycho-anal. ii. 35 The term phantasy is much used in analytical psychology, and the fact that its technical meaning differs subtly from its colloquial one leads to some confusion. A phantasy is a day-dream in which desire, unfulfilled in the world of reality, finds an imaginary fulfilment or satisfaction.

1957 P. Lafitte Person in Psychol. ix. 120 The Rorschach test invites him to enact his very vaguest fantasies, as when he sees pictures in the fire or on the wall.

a. Imagination; the process or the faculty of forming mental representations of things not actually present. (Cf. fancy n. 4) Also personified. Now usually with sense influenced by association with fantastic or phantasm: Extravagant or visionary fancy.In early use not clearly distinguished from 3; an exercise of poetic imagination being conventionally regarded as accompanied by belief in the reality of what is imagined.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > indulgence in

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fantastication-

α.

1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. D4, The Idea of her person represents it selfe an obiect to my fantasie.

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. E3^v, The soules swift Pegasus, the fantasie.

a1631 J. Donne Elegy in Poems (1633) 153 When you are gone, and Reason gone with you, Then Fantasie is Queene.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. i. 30/2 Ever, in my distresses..has Fantasy turned, full of longing..to that unknown Father.

1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 176 Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power common to all who have the gift of dreams.

β. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. f. 18, Nature is a righte, that phantasie hath not framed.1672–3 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd II. 130 You have attracted by force of phantasy some extraordinary Spirit to your assistance.1704 I. Newton Opticks i. ii. 120 By the power of phantasy we see Colours in a Dream.1833 E. Bulwer-Lytton Godolphin II. ii. 32 Volktman himself, in the fulness of his northern phantasy, [could not] have sculptured forth a better image.a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. ii. 22 We may view it in phantasy as black or white.1857 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity (ed. 2) VI. xiv. vii 374 (note) Their union with the Deity was..through the phantasy.

b. A mental image.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun]

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1823 C. Lamb Grace before Meat in Elia 215 To the temperate fantasies of the famished Son of God.

a1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1857) 3rd Ser. vi. 81 Our creative shaping intellect projected its own fantasies.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. vi. xlviii. 379 Fantasies moved within her like ghosts.

c. A product of imagination, fiction, figment.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] > imaginary form, fiction

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] > an invention, fiction, story

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fictionalization1954

1362 Langland Piers Plowman A. i. 36 Iapers and Iangelers..Founden hem fantasyes.

1399 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) I. 371 If ȝe ffynde ffables or ffoly ther amonge, or ony ffantasie yffeyned that no ffrute is in.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 147/1 Centaurs, Satyrs, Griffins, &c. [are] Forced Figures..Fiction or Fantacy..to express a Novelty.

d. An ingenious, tasteful, or fantastic invention or design.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > contriving or devising > that which is contrived, devised, or invented

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α.

c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xxxii. 123 A silkyne gyrdil, sotilly i-made; for the damyselle comunely lovithe swiche fantasys.

1552 R. Record Ground of Artes (rev. ed.) ii. sig. X.ii^v, Some questions of this rule may be varied aboue 1000 waies: but I would haue you forget suche fantasies, tyll a tyme of more leysure.

1847 Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxiii. 225 There was a monstrous fantasy of rusty iron.

β. 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 1 Balades, plaies, rimes, songes, and other phantasies.1820 Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 72 A soiled glove, whereon Her silk had play'd in purple phantasies.

e. esp. in Music; a fantasia. (Cf. 6.)

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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > fantasia or rhapsody

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1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 181 The..chiefest kind of musick which is made without a dittie is the fantasie, that is, when a musician taketh a point at his pleasure, and wresteth and turneth it as he list.

1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick 17 This is called the Duple or Semibrief Time, and this Mood..is usual in Songs, Fantasies, [&c.].

f. A genre of literary compositions.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > science fiction, etc. > [noun] > fantasy

fantasy1949

1949 (title) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

1954 M. F. Rodell Myst. Fiction ii. 4 Mysteries belong to the vast category of escape fiction. Westerns, ‘romances’, historical novels, and fantasies (other than satires) all belong in the same category.

1955 F. Brown Angels & Spaceships 9 Fantasy deals with things that are not and cannot be. Science fiction deals with things that can be, that some day may be.

a. A supposition resting on no solid grounds; a whimsical or visionary notion or speculation.Now more emphatically contemptuous than fancy n.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun]

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α.

c1440 Generydes 4652 Leve all these fantesies..ye shall not fynde it thus.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKKvi, Your mynde..is moste apt to..waueryng fantasyes about diuers thynges.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2669 His olde fader fantasi þai filet in hert.

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 953 The Minds of the common People would be divided, according as any one would teach his Fantasies.

1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights II. xiv. 443 All that would be to them less than fancy—mere fantasy.

1878 J. Morley Vauvenargues Crit. Misc. 20 Many pernicious and destructive fantasies.

β. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxliii. 271 Vaine..is their phantasie that thinke it vngodly to flee from..the plague.a1610 J. Healey tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) 30 Keepe thy minde firme against all such phantasies.1858 R. A. Vaughan Ess. & Remains I. 6 Not a phantasy in religion..but might there soar or flutter.

†b. in my fantasy: = ‘as I imagine’; modestly used for ‘in my opinion’. Obs.

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > personal opinion > [adverb] > in my opinion

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in one's own conceit1483

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if you ask me1873

α.

1561 Record's Grounde of Artes (rev. ed.) i. i. sig. L.j, And yet in my simple fantasy these thinges offer them selues..to be studied for aboute progression.

1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 169 In mine own fantasie, it wanteth not the feete of sounde reason to stande upon.

β. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 209 There standeth a Towne yet called Sturmere, which (in my fantasie) sufficiently mainteineth the knowledge of this matter.

6. Caprice, changeful mood; an instance of this; a caprice, whim. †Often in at, after, according to, upon one's own fantasy (obs.).

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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim

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tic1896

tick1900

α.

a1450 Knt. de la Tour 23 Alle good women..aught to leve all suche fantasyes.

1490 Caxton tr. Eneydos vi. 25 His wyf..he loued..of fyne loue wythout fayntasie.

?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Elem. sig. Aij^v, Euery man after his fantesye will wryte his conceyt.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 146 Whosoeuer shall kill his souldier vpon his owne fantasie, without iust cause.

1649 Milton Εικονοκλαστης xi. 103 The Kingdom..must depend in greatest exigencies upon the fantasie of a Kings reason.

1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 1st Pt. ii. 156 It was out of no light fantasie or Obstinacy that he thus refused [the oath].

1815 Scott Lord of Isles vi. xvii. 244 Fate plays her wonted fantasy..with thee and me.

1883 C. F. Woolson For the Major iv, Little ways..considered to belong to the ‘fantasies of genius’.

β. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxxvij^v, The Dolphyn tooke vpon hym, the rule..orderyng causes..after his awne..phantasie.1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. v. 55 Our strength and labours were idely consumed to fulfill his phantasies.

†7. Inclination, liking, desire. Obs.

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the mind > will > wish or inclination > [noun]

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α.

c1374 Chaucer Former Age 51 The lambyssh poeple..Hadden no fantesye to debate.

c1405 (c1390) Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 5 Al his fantasie Was turned for to leere Astrologie.

c1450 Merlin 213 Soche a fantasie fill in his herte that he cowde not it remeve.

1462 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 279 If..ther be sent swyche downe to tak a rewyll as the pepyll hathe a fantsy in.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. II. 158 Throw fantasie of this Roxiana, Of hir sic plesour he had.

1598 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 4 He fell into a fantasie and desire to.. know how farre that land stretched.

a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1644) 83 Every man prefers his fantasie in that appetite, before all other worldly desires.

β. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 102/2 Diuers men [worship] diuers Gods, so as euery one hath in him selfe a mynde or phantasy to worship.

Compounds

General attrib.

C1.

fantasy-building n. and adj.

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1938 Tablet 1 Jan. 20/2 Now it is very strange that these judgments of her contemporaries should fit in so exactly with the present day estimate of Teresa as a fantasy-building neurotic.., unable at times to distinguish between imaginative and objective reality.

1959 H. Read Conc. Hist. Mod. Painting vii. 287 An immense effort to rid the mind of that corruption which, whether it has taken the form of fantasy-building or repression..constitutes a false witness to sensation or experience.

C2.

fantasy-life n.

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1937 ‘M. Innes’ Hamlet, Revenge! i. 12 They have their tenure in remaining—remote, jewelled and magical—a focus for the fantasy-life of thousands.

1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day 22 It is said that an only child develops a particularly vivid fantasy-life.

fantasy world n.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [noun] > imaginary place

fairyc1330

rumbelow?1515

Hogs Norton?1565

fairyland1600

wonderland1790

other world1804

dreamland1832

Fourth World1833

cloudland1846

Loamshire1859

looking-glass land1871

looking-glass world1871

under-land1874

cloud-world1884

Speewah1890

Ruritania1894

cloud-cuckoo-land1899

cuckoo-land1916

fantasy world1920

Squaresville1956

la-la land1979

1920 T. P. Nunn Education vii. 83 Prefers his fantasy-world to reality.

1955 A. C. Smith Speaking Eye vi. 63 The other chairs were littered with film magazines... The fantasy world of sex.

Draft additions October 2001

attrib. orig. U.S. Designating a competition or league in which participants create imaginary teams by selecting players from an existing sports league, and score points according to the players' actual performances; esp. in fantasy league. Also preceding the name of the sport on which a particular competition is based, as fantasy football, fantasy cricket, fantasy baseball, etc. Cf. earlier rotisserie n.

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1984 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 20 Mar. This is a fantasy league in which you can own and manage a major league team... The pennant winner is he-she who puts together the best team.

1991 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 28 Sept. 38 The Fantasy League.., who invite participants to pick their own imaginary teams from Football League players and go up or down according to their choices' real-life fortunes on the pitch.

1999 Wells Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 30 Sept. Following on from the success of fantasy cricket, which this week concluded with the presentation of prizes to top managers on Monday, Mid Somerset Newspapers' fantasy soccer competition is soon to return.

2001 Baseball Weekly (Electronic ed.) 31 Jan. I was looking forward to the Super Bowl mainly for two reasons: The squirrels of Pamplona..and the kickoff of the fantasy baseball preparation season.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2014).

fantasyv.

/ˈfæntəsɪ/

Forms: α. Middle English–1600s fantasie, fantasye, Middle English–1500s fantesye, 1500s fantase, fantaise, 1600s fant'sy, Middle English– fantasy. β. 1500s–1600s phantasie, phantasy, (1500s phantasey, 1600s phantacy, -zy), 1800s phantasy.

Etymology: < Old French fantasie-r, < fantasie fantasy n.

a. trans. = fancy v. 1; rarely, to fantasy with oneself.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > imagine or visualize [verb (transitive)]

seeOE

thinkOE

bethinkc1175

devise1340

portraya1375

imagec1390

dreama1393

supposea1393

imaginea1398

conceive?a1425

fantasyc1430

purposea1513

to frame to oneselfa1529

'magine1530

imaginate1541

fancy1551

surmit?1577

surmise1586

conceit?1589

propose1594

ideate1610

project1612

figurea1616

forma1616

to call up1622

propound1634

edify1645

picture1668

create1679

fancify1748

depicture1775

vision1796

to conjure up1819

conjure1820

envisage1836

to dream up1837

visualize1863

envision1921

pre-visualize1969

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > conceive in fancy [verb (transitive)]

fantasyc1430

feign1557

fantasticate1600

fancya1643

fantasize1950

c1430 Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes Prol. 3 Men of craft may..Fantasien in their inward sight Devises newe.

1543 R. Grafton Contin. in Chron. J. Hardyng f. lviii^v, Dreames,..his owne feare phanteseth.

1548 Order of Communion sig. A.ii, Euery man phantasiying & deuisyng a sondrye way by him selfe.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 945/1 It was not the same very present body of Christ, as the Priestes did phantasie.

1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum i. vi. 5 As wise men haue..fantasied iiii. simple bodies which they call elementes.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 182 The image of the yong gentleman was so well phantizied in her braine.

1818 Keats Endymion iii. 129 A dream..so phantasied.

1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic II. ii. viii. 17 He fantasied in his imagination a kind of religion, half Catholic, half Reformed.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female xii. 262 Behind that schoolgirl complexion..could be phantasied many sorts of conditions.

1960 20th Cent. Dec. 519 It is ludicrous to fantasy ‘disinventing’ the hydrogen bomb.

1970 New Society 31 Dec. 1157/1 The long-termers only occasionally fantasy or talk with each other about various styles of ‘making-out’ on release.

b. with obj. and inf. or object clause.

ΚΠ

1430 Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. ii, Day by day cast and fantesyeth How his venim may..Upon this Jason be fully execute.

1547 Queen Katherine Parr Lamentacion of Synner sig. G.iii, Fantasiyng with theym selues, that I do it..of hatred.

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 51, Som dyd phantasey one thyng to be the cause and som an other.

1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style Script. 51 The Syrian Leper..vainly fant'sied, that Gods appointment could not put a difference between things that knew no other.

c. absol. or intr.

ΚΠ

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John x. 13 He fantasieth thus; In case thei go to wracke, what than?

†2. trans. To wear the appearance (ϕαντασία) of. Obs. rare^—1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > have (specific) appearance [verb (transitive)]

beareOE

to look likec1390

showa1425

fantasy?1611

weara1616

strikea1701

to make likea1881

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiii. 60 At every part the form did comprehend His likeness; his fair eyes, his voice, his stature, every weed His person wore, it fantasied.

†3. To take a fancy or liking to; to be favourably inclined to; to fall in love with. Also with inf., to ‘take it into one's head’ (to do something). Cf. fancy v. 8. Obs.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > be inclined [verb (intransitive)]

inclinea1413

willc1443

please?1467

regard?1542

fantasy1548

depend1586

to be bent1626

point1638

bias1656

to be on1886

the mind > will > wish or inclination > be disposed or inclined to [verb (transitive)] > be favourably inclined to

reckOE

keep1297

to list ofa1300

to have, take a fancy for, to1465

lean1530

fantasy1548

to run upon ——1550

mind1648

to run to ——1809

whim1842

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxciij^v, He..fauored her suyte, but muche more phantasied her person.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 4 b, As if one should phantasy to praise a Gose before any other beast.

1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vii. xxxiiii. 150 Death, late feared, now she fantaseth.

1641 W. Prynne Antipathie 79 That he [the King] should neither phantacy nor regard the serious Petition of the importunate Commons.

absol.1560 T. Becon Treat. Fasting xi, in Wks. ii. 89 b, Nether do they direct their fastes vnto any godly end, but as euery one fantasieth, so do they fast.

4. intr. To play fantasias; to extemporize. rare (but often in Carlyle).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > improvise or extemporize

extemporize1775

improvise1788

impromptu1802

fantasy1840

fake1895

ad-lib1910

busk1934

jam1935

noodle1937

1840 T. Carlyle Wks. (1858) II. 323 He [Hoffmann] could fantasy to admiration on the harpsichord.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. vi. 650 Fantasying on the flute in an animated strain.

Derivatives

ˈfantasying n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > indulgence in

imaginationa1393

dreaminga1400

fantasying1552

fantasy1553

fancy1581

think-so1666

ideology1813

fantasticating1880

fantastication-

1552 R. Record Ground of Artes (rev. ed.) ii. sig. Y.ij, You shuld..not haue taken a question of your own fantasieng.

1554 L. Saunders Let. 17 Oct. in Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 184 The fantasing of the flesh pottes of Egypte.

1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist ii. ix. 135 We are charged with a Corinthian fantasying of mens persons.

1932 Q. D. Leavis Fiction & Reading Public i. iii. 54 A habit of fantasying will lead to maladjustment in actual life.

1960 I. Bennett Delinquent & Neurotic Children iii. 69 ‘Bouts’ of lying and fantasying to get other boys into trouble.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2014).

单词	fantasy
释义	fantasyphantasyn. /ˈfæntəsɪ/ Forms: α. Middle English–1600s fantasi(e, -ye, -azie, -aisie, -aysie, -esi(e, -esy(e, -essy, (Middle English fantsy, fayntasie, feintasy), Middle English–1500s fantosy, 1500s–1600s fantacie, fantacy, Middle English– fantasy. β. 1500s–1700s phantasie, (1500s -esie, 1500s–1600s phant'sie, -'sy), 1500s– phantasy. Etymology: < Old French fantasie (French fantaisie), (= Provencal fantazia, Spanish, Portuguese fantasía, Italian fantasia), < Latin phantasia, < Greek ϕαντασία lit. ‘a making visible’, < ϕαντάζειν to make visible, < ϕαίνειν to show. The senses of ϕαντασία from which the senses of the word in the modern languages are developed are: 1. appearance, in late Greek especially spectral apparition, phantom (so Latin phantasia in Vulgate); 2. the mental process or faculty of sensuous perception; 3. the faculty of imagination. These senses passed through Old French into English, together with others (as delusive fancy, false or unfounded notion, caprice, etc.) which had been developed in late Latin, Romanic, or French. The shortened form fancy n. and adj., which apparently originated in the 15th cent., had in the time of Shakespeare become more or less differentiated in sense. After the revival of Greek learning, the longer form was often spelt phantasy, and its meaning was influenced by the Greek etymon. In modern use fantasy and phantasy, in spite of their identity in sound and in ultimate etymology, tend to be apprehended as separate words, the predominant sense of the former being ‘caprice, whim, fanciful invention’, while that of the latter is ‘imagination, visionary notion’. 1. In scholastic psychology: †a. Mental apprehension of an object of perception; the faculty by which this is performed. Obs. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > [noun] anyitOE eyesightc1175 sightc1175 sentimentc1374 mindc1384 intentc1386 fantasyc1400 savoura1425 spiritsc1450 perceiverancea1500 perceiverationa1500 senses1528 perceivance1534 sense1553 kenc1560 mind-sight1587 knowledge1590 fancy1593 animadversion1596 cognition1651 awaring1674 perception1678 scan1838 apperception1848 perceivedness1871 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > process of perception > [noun] > in Scholastic Psychology fantasyc1400 fancy1593 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > process of perception > [noun] > in Scholastic Psychology > faculty of fantasyc1400 fancy1593 a1382 Oresme in Meunier Ess. sur Oresme 179 Il entent par fantasie apprehension ou cognoissance sensitive des choses presentes.] α. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 113 Þat place [þe brayn] is propre instrument of ymagynacioun þe which resceyveþ þinges þat comprehendiþ of fantasie [L. res a phantasia comprehensas].1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xxiv. ii, These are the v. wyttes remeuing inwardly..common wytte..ymaginacyon, Fantasy, and estymacyon..And memory.1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. i. 76 Sense perceiveth sweetness by tast or smell, light and pulchritude by sight and fantasie.β. a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1664) 126 According to the diversity of the eye, which offereth it unto the phantasie.1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. iv. 13 It is..likely, that all living creatures which have eye-balls, oblique and narrow,..have a peculiar phantasie of objects.1669 A. Browne Ars Pictoria (1675) 40 Light..is the cause..whereby coloured things are seen, whose Shapes and Images pass to the phantasie. †b. The image impressed on the mind by an object of sense. Obs. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > image held in memory > [noun] fantasyc1340 imagea1393 idea1579 phantasm1594 impression1613 tablature1661 memory-image1882 c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. (1866) 14 When the resone es cleryde fra all..fygours and fantasyes of creatures. 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xi. 155 Memorie supplieth none other office..than..to preserue the figures and fantasies of things. †2. A spectral apparition, phantom; an illusory appearance. Obs. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] soulOE huea1000 ghostOE fantasyc1325 spiritc1350 phantomc1384 phantasmc1430 haunterc1440 shadowa1464 appearance1488 wraith1513 hag1538 spoorn1584 vizarda1591 life-in-death1593 phantasma1598 umbra1601 larve1603 spectre1605 spectrum1611 apparitiona1616 shadea1616 shapea1616 showa1616 idolum1619 larva1651 white hat?1693 zumbi1704 jumbie1764 duppy1774 waff1777 zombie1788 Wild Huntsman1796 spook1801 ghostie1810 hantua1811 preta1811 bodach1814 revenant1823 death-fetch1826 sowlth1829 haunt1843 night-bat1847 spectrality1850 thivish1852 beastie1867 ghost soul1869 barrow-wight1891 resurrect1892 waft1897 churel1901 comeback1908 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > deceptive fancy or illusion > [noun] fantasyc1325 fairyc1330 illusionc1374 mazec1390 phantasma1398 dream1489 phantom1557 seeming1576 phantasma1598 fancy1609 hallucinationa1652 phantastry1656 phasm1659 fata Morgana1818 dreamland1832 stardust1906 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [noun] > an optical illusion > vision or apparition visionc1290 fantasyc1325 imagec1350 figurec1384 beholdingc1440 semblance1489 idol1563 ghost1593 fancy1609 species1639 spectrala1656 spectre1801 eidolon1828 c1325 Song of Yesterday 30 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 134 Þis worldly blis. Is but a fykel fantasy. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ix. xxv. 362 Moo fantasyes ben seen by nyghte than by daye. 1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 46 Somme fantasie of Fiton hath marrid thi mynde. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. xviii. 31 Þe fantasy þus of hys Dreme Movyd hym mast to sla hys Eme. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 172 Phantosme, a fantosy. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxi. 64 All is but fantesey and enchauntementes. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. III. 365 Trowand that tyme it wes ane phantasie. a1583 E. Grindal Remains (1843) (modernized text) 59 No bread..but certain fantasies of white and round. 3. a. Delusive imagination, hallucination; the fact or habit of deluding oneself by imaginary perceptions or reminiscences. ? Obs. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > deceptive fancy or illusion > [noun] > delusive habit or state phantasma1250 mazec1300 fantasy1340 fancy1597 illusiveness1727 illusion1774 mythicalism1896 α. 1340–70 Alisaunder 384 For fere, ne fantasie faile they nolde. c1374 Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 1535 This fool of fantasie [sc. Cassandra]. 1574 R. Scot Perfite Platf. of Hoppe Garden (1578) 60 Such as haue Mountaynes in fantasie and beggery in possession. 1603 Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 52 You tremble and looke pale, Is not this something more then fantasie? 1658 S. Simpson 2 Bks. i. ix. 66 They thought it was but meer a fantasie, and imagination. β. ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye To Rdr. sig. a2, Makinge..the eldres..to wandre in phantasyes.1654 Case of Commonwealth 50 If we falter, or be mis-led through phant'sie.1675 T. Brooks Word in Season 20 in Paradice Opened Raising such a phantasy in the Lyons that they looked upon Daniel..as on one, that was a friend unto them.1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. i. 2 He will..be sometimes misled by his own phantasy. b. A day-dream arising from conscious or unconscious wishes or attitudes. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [noun] castle in Spainc1400 reverie1477 brown studyc1555 castle in the skies1576 castle in the air1579 comedown1583 memento1587 towers in the air1599 daydream1651 dream1732 air castle1786 châteaux in air1793 chateau(x) en Espagne1834 cloud-castle1887 pipe dream1890 fantasy1926 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > need as motivation > [noun] > daydream fantasy1926 1926 G. Coster Psycho-anal. ii. 35 The term phantasy is much used in analytical psychology, and the fact that its technical meaning differs subtly from its colloquial one leads to some confusion. A phantasy is a day-dream in which desire, unfulfilled in the world of reality, finds an imaginary fulfilment or satisfaction. 1957 P. Lafitte Person in Psychol. ix. 120 The Rorschach test invites him to enact his very vaguest fantasies, as when he sees pictures in the fire or on the wall. 4. a. Imagination; the process or the faculty of forming mental representations of things not actually present. (Cf. fancy n. 4) Also personified. Now usually with sense influenced by association with fantastic or phantasm: Extravagant or visionary fancy.In early use not clearly distinguished from 3; an exercise of poetic imagination being conventionally regarded as accompanied by belief in the reality of what is imagined. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > indulgence in imaginationa1393 dreaminga1400 fantasying1552 fantasy1553 fancy1581 think-so1666 ideology1813 fantasticating1880 fantastication- α. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. D4, The Idea of her person represents it selfe an obiect to my fantasie. 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. E3^v, The soules swift Pegasus, the fantasie. a1631 J. Donne Elegy in Poems (1633) 153 When you are gone, and Reason gone with you, Then Fantasie is Queene. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. i. 30/2 Ever, in my distresses..has Fantasy turned, full of longing..to that unknown Father. 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 176 Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power common to all who have the gift of dreams. β. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. f. 18, Nature is a righte, that phantasie hath not framed.1672–3 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd II. 130 You have attracted by force of phantasy some extraordinary Spirit to your assistance.1704 I. Newton Opticks i. ii. 120 By the power of phantasy we see Colours in a Dream.1833 E. Bulwer-Lytton Godolphin II. ii. 32 Volktman himself, in the fulness of his northern phantasy, [could not] have sculptured forth a better image.a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. ii. 22 We may view it in phantasy as black or white.1857 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity (ed. 2) VI. xiv. vii 374 (note) Their union with the Deity was..through the phantasy. b. A mental image. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] huea1000 imagination1340 imagea1393 portraiturea1393 trowc1460 fume1531 imaginary1594 phantasm1594 trajection1594 representationa1602 idolum1619 object1651 tablature1661 fancy1663 representamen1677 phantom1686 presentment1817 fantasy1823 projection1836 visuality1841 thought-picture1844 imago1863 vestige1885 1823 C. Lamb Grace before Meat in Elia 215 To the temperate fantasies of the famished Son of God. a1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1857) 3rd Ser. vi. 81 Our creative shaping intellect projected its own fantasies. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. vi. xlviii. 379 Fantasies moved within her like ghosts. c. A product of imagination, fiction, figment. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] > imaginary form, fiction fantasy1362 figurec1384 feigning1388 idol1577 idea1593 nonentity1604 figment1624 spectre1708 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] > an invention, fiction, story fablec1300 fantasy1362 feigning1388 invention?a1513 story?1531 finctionc1540 figment1577 fingure1593 fiction1599 knavigation1613 flam1632 gun1720 novel1764 fabrication1790 fudge1797 gag1805 myth1840 make-up1844 concoction1885 fictionalization1954 1362 Langland Piers Plowman A. i. 36 Iapers and Iangelers..Founden hem fantasyes. 1399 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) I. 371 If ȝe ffynde ffables or ffoly ther amonge, or ony ffantasie yffeyned that no ffrute is in. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 147/1 Centaurs, Satyrs, Griffins, &c. [are] Forced Figures..Fiction or Fantacy..to express a Novelty. d. An ingenious, tasteful, or fantastic invention or design. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > contriving or devising > that which is contrived, devised, or invented fantasyc1440 invention1546 coinage1604 devilment1855 α. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xxxii. 123 A silkyne gyrdil, sotilly i-made; for the damyselle comunely lovithe swiche fantasys. 1552 R. Record Ground of Artes (rev. ed.) ii. sig. X.ii^v, Some questions of this rule may be varied aboue 1000 waies: but I would haue you forget suche fantasies, tyll a tyme of more leysure. 1847 Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxiii. 225 There was a monstrous fantasy of rusty iron. β. 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 1 Balades, plaies, rimes, songes, and other phantasies.1820 Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 72 A soiled glove, whereon Her silk had play'd in purple phantasies. e. esp. in Music; a fantasia. (Cf. 6.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > fantasia or rhapsody fantasy1597 fantasia1724 extravaganza1797 arabesque1824 rhapsody1832 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 181 The..chiefest kind of musick which is made without a dittie is the fantasie, that is, when a musician taketh a point at his pleasure, and wresteth and turneth it as he list. 1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick 17 This is called the Duple or Semibrief Time, and this Mood..is usual in Songs, Fantasies, [&c.]. f. A genre of literary compositions. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > science fiction, etc. > [noun] > fantasy fantasy1949 1949 (title) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. 1954 M. F. Rodell Myst. Fiction ii. 4 Mysteries belong to the vast category of escape fiction. Westerns, ‘romances’, historical novels, and fantasies (other than satires) all belong in the same category. 1955 F. Brown Angels & Spaceships 9 Fantasy deals with things that are not and cannot be. Science fiction deals with things that can be, that some day may be. 5. a. A supposition resting on no solid grounds; a whimsical or visionary notion or speculation.Now more emphatically contemptuous than fancy n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] phantoma1375 fantasyc1440 conceitc1450 fancy1471 crotchet1573 whim-wham1580 vision1592 reverie1602 whimsy1607 windmill1612 brainworm1617 maggota1625 vapour1631 flama1637 fantastic1641 idea1660 whim1697 rockstaff1729 whigmaleery1730 vagary1753 freak1785 whimsy-whamsy1807 crankum1822 whimmery1837 α. c1440 Generydes 4652 Leve all these fantesies..ye shall not fynde it thus. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKKvi, Your mynde..is moste apt to..waueryng fantasyes about diuers thynges. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2669 His olde fader fantasi þai filet in hert. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 953 The Minds of the common People would be divided, according as any one would teach his Fantasies. 1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights II. xiv. 443 All that would be to them less than fancy—mere fantasy. 1878 J. Morley Vauvenargues Crit. Misc. 20 Many pernicious and destructive fantasies. β. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxliii. 271 Vaine..is their phantasie that thinke it vngodly to flee from..the plague.a1610 J. Healey tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) 30 Keepe thy minde firme against all such phantasies.1858 R. A. Vaughan Ess. & Remains I. 6 Not a phantasy in religion..but might there soar or flutter. †b. in my fantasy: = ‘as I imagine’; modestly used for ‘in my opinion’. Obs. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > personal opinion > [adverb] > in my opinion to (my) seemingc1386 to my supposinga1393 in my mindc1400 conceitc1405 in one's own conceit1483 in my fantasy1561 to my mind1600 in my seeming1604 in (also to) my conception1650 to my way of thinking1733 if you ask me1873 α. 1561 Record's Grounde of Artes (rev. ed.) i. i. sig. L.j, And yet in my simple fantasy these thinges offer them selues..to be studied for aboute progression. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 169 In mine own fantasie, it wanteth not the feete of sounde reason to stande upon. β. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 209 There standeth a Towne yet called Sturmere, which (in my fantasie) sufficiently mainteineth the knowledge of this matter. 6. Caprice, changeful mood; an instance of this; a caprice, whim. †Often in at, after, according to, upon one's own fantasy (obs.). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim fantasya1450 wantonness1531 humour1533 worm?a1534 will1542 toy?1545 whey-worm1548 wild worm1548 freak1563 crotchet1573 fancy1579 whim-wham1580 whirligig1589 caper1592 megrim1593 spleen1594 kicksey-winsey1599 fegary1600 humorousness1604 curiosity1605 conundrum1607 whimsy1607 windmill1612 buzza1616 capriccioa1616 quirka1616 flama1625 maggota1625 fantasticality1631 capruch1634 gimcrack1639 whimseycado1654 caprich1656 excursion1662 frisk1665 caprice1673 fita1680 grub1681 fantasque1697 whim1697 frolic1711 flight1717 whigmaleery1730 vagary1753 maddock1787 kink1803 fizgig1824 fad1834 whimmery1837 fantod1839 brain crack1853 whimsy-whamsy1871 tic1896 tick1900 α. a1450 Knt. de la Tour 23 Alle good women..aught to leve all suche fantasyes. 1490 Caxton tr. Eneydos vi. 25 His wyf..he loued..of fyne loue wythout fayntasie. ?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Elem. sig. Aij^v, Euery man after his fantesye will wryte his conceyt. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 146 Whosoeuer shall kill his souldier vpon his owne fantasie, without iust cause. 1649 Milton Εικονοκλαστης xi. 103 The Kingdom..must depend in greatest exigencies upon the fantasie of a Kings reason. 1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 1st Pt. ii. 156 It was out of no light fantasie or Obstinacy that he thus refused [the oath]. 1815 Scott Lord of Isles vi. xvii. 244 Fate plays her wonted fantasy..with thee and me. 1883 C. F. Woolson For the Major iv, Little ways..considered to belong to the ‘fantasies of genius’. β. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxxvij^v, The Dolphyn tooke vpon hym, the rule..orderyng causes..after his awne..phantasie.1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. v. 55 Our strength and labours were idely consumed to fulfill his phantasies. †7. Inclination, liking, desire. Obs. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > [noun] willeOE hearteOE i-willc888 self-willeOE intent?c1225 device1303 couragec1320 talentc1325 greec1330 voluntyc1330 fantasyc1374 likinga1375 disposingc1380 pleasancea1382 affectionc1390 wish1390 disposition1393 affecta1398 likea1400 lista1400 pleasingc1400 emplesance1424 pleasurec1425 well-willingc1443 notiona1450 mindc1450 fancy1465 empleseur1473 hest?a1513 plighta1535 inclination1541 cue1567 month's mind1580 disposedness1583 leaning1587 humour1595 wouldings1613 beneplacit1643 wouldingness1645 vergency1649 bene-placiture1662 good liking1690 draught1758 tida1774 inkling1787 α. c1374 Chaucer Former Age 51 The lambyssh poeple..Hadden no fantesye to debate. c1405 (c1390) Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 5 Al his fantasie Was turned for to leere Astrologie. c1450 Merlin 213 Soche a fantasie fill in his herte that he cowde not it remeve. 1462 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 279 If..ther be sent swyche downe to tak a rewyll as the pepyll hathe a fantsy in. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. II. 158 Throw fantasie of this Roxiana, Of hir sic plesour he had. 1598 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 4 He fell into a fantasie and desire to.. know how farre that land stretched. a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1644) 83 Every man prefers his fantasie in that appetite, before all other worldly desires. β. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 102/2 Diuers men [worship] diuers Gods, so as euery one hath in him selfe a mynde or phantasy to worship. Compounds General attrib. C1. fantasy-building n. and adj. ΚΠ 1938 Tablet 1 Jan. 20/2 Now it is very strange that these judgments of her contemporaries should fit in so exactly with the present day estimate of Teresa as a fantasy-building neurotic.., unable at times to distinguish between imaginative and objective reality. 1959 H. Read Conc. Hist. Mod. Painting vii. 287 An immense effort to rid the mind of that corruption which, whether it has taken the form of fantasy-building or repression..constitutes a false witness to sensation or experience. C2. fantasy-life n. ΚΠ 1937 ‘M. Innes’ Hamlet, Revenge! i. 12 They have their tenure in remaining—remote, jewelled and magical—a focus for the fantasy-life of thousands. 1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day 22 It is said that an only child develops a particularly vivid fantasy-life. fantasy world n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [noun] > imaginary place fairyc1330 rumbelow?1515 Hogs Norton?1565 fairyland1600 wonderland1790 other world1804 dreamland1832 Fourth World1833 cloudland1846 Loamshire1859 looking-glass land1871 looking-glass world1871 under-land1874 cloud-world1884 Speewah1890 Ruritania1894 cloud-cuckoo-land1899 cuckoo-land1916 fantasy world1920 Squaresville1956 la-la land1979 1920 T. P. Nunn Education vii. 83 Prefers his fantasy-world to reality. 1955 A. C. Smith Speaking Eye vi. 63 The other chairs were littered with film magazines... The fantasy world of sex. Draft additions October 2001 attrib. orig. U.S. Designating a competition or league in which participants create imaginary teams by selecting players from an existing sports league, and score points according to the players' actual performances; esp. in fantasy league. Also preceding the name of the sport on which a particular competition is based, as fantasy football, fantasy cricket, fantasy baseball, etc. Cf. earlier rotisserie n. ΚΠ 1984 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 20 Mar. This is a fantasy league in which you can own and manage a major league team... The pennant winner is he-she who puts together the best team. 1991 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 28 Sept. 38 The Fantasy League.., who invite participants to pick their own imaginary teams from Football League players and go up or down according to their choices' real-life fortunes on the pitch. 1999 Wells Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 30 Sept. Following on from the success of fantasy cricket, which this week concluded with the presentation of prizes to top managers on Monday, Mid Somerset Newspapers' fantasy soccer competition is soon to return. 2001 Baseball Weekly (Electronic ed.) 31 Jan. I was looking forward to the Super Bowl mainly for two reasons: The squirrels of Pamplona..and the kickoff of the fantasy baseball preparation season. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2014). fantasyv. /ˈfæntəsɪ/ Forms: α. Middle English–1600s fantasie, fantasye, Middle English–1500s fantesye, 1500s fantase, fantaise, 1600s fant'sy, Middle English– fantasy. β. 1500s–1600s phantasie, phantasy, (1500s phantasey, 1600s phantacy, -zy), 1800s phantasy. Etymology: < Old French fantasie-r, < fantasie fantasy n. 1. a. trans. = fancy v. 1; rarely, to fantasy with oneself. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > imagine or visualize [verb (transitive)] seeOE thinkOE bethinkc1175 devise1340 portraya1375 imagec1390 dreama1393 supposea1393 imaginea1398 conceive?a1425 fantasyc1430 purposea1513 to frame to oneselfa1529 'magine1530 imaginate1541 fancy1551 surmit?1577 surmise1586 conceit?1589 propose1594 ideate1610 project1612 figurea1616 forma1616 to call up1622 propound1634 edify1645 picture1668 create1679 fancify1748 depicture1775 vision1796 to conjure up1819 conjure1820 envisage1836 to dream up1837 visualize1863 envision1921 pre-visualize1969 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > conceive in fancy [verb (transitive)] fantasyc1430 feign1557 fantasticate1600 fancya1643 fantasize1950 c1430 Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes Prol. 3 Men of craft may..Fantasien in their inward sight Devises newe. 1543 R. Grafton Contin. in Chron. J. Hardyng f. lviii^v, Dreames,..his owne feare phanteseth. 1548 Order of Communion sig. A.ii, Euery man phantasiying & deuisyng a sondrye way by him selfe. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 945/1 It was not the same very present body of Christ, as the Priestes did phantasie. 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum i. vi. 5 As wise men haue..fantasied iiii. simple bodies which they call elementes. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 182 The image of the yong gentleman was so well phantizied in her braine. 1818 Keats Endymion iii. 129 A dream..so phantasied. 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic II. ii. viii. 17 He fantasied in his imagination a kind of religion, half Catholic, half Reformed. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female xii. 262 Behind that schoolgirl complexion..could be phantasied many sorts of conditions. 1960 20th Cent. Dec. 519 It is ludicrous to fantasy ‘disinventing’ the hydrogen bomb. 1970 New Society 31 Dec. 1157/1 The long-termers only occasionally fantasy or talk with each other about various styles of ‘making-out’ on release. b. with obj. and inf. or object clause. ΚΠ 1430 Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. ii, Day by day cast and fantesyeth How his venim may..Upon this Jason be fully execute. 1547 Queen Katherine Parr Lamentacion of Synner sig. G.iii, Fantasiyng with theym selues, that I do it..of hatred. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 51, Som dyd phantasey one thyng to be the cause and som an other. 1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style Script. 51 The Syrian Leper..vainly fant'sied, that Gods appointment could not put a difference between things that knew no other. c. absol. or intr. ΚΠ 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John x. 13 He fantasieth thus; In case thei go to wracke, what than? †2. trans. To wear the appearance (ϕαντασία) of. Obs. rare^—1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > have (specific) appearance [verb (transitive)] beareOE to look likec1390 showa1425 fantasy?1611 weara1616 strikea1701 to make likea1881 ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiii. 60 At every part the form did comprehend His likeness; his fair eyes, his voice, his stature, every weed His person wore, it fantasied. †3. To take a fancy or liking to; to be favourably inclined to; to fall in love with. Also with inf., to ‘take it into one's head’ (to do something). Cf. fancy v. 8. Obs. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > be inclined [verb (intransitive)] inclinea1413 willc1443 please?1467 regard?1542 fantasy1548 depend1586 to be bent1626 point1638 bias1656 to be on1886 the mind > will > wish or inclination > be disposed or inclined to [verb (transitive)] > be favourably inclined to reckOE keep1297 to list ofa1300 to have, take a fancy for, to1465 lean1530 fantasy1548 to run upon ——1550 mind1648 to run to ——1809 whim1842 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxciij^v, He..fauored her suyte, but muche more phantasied her person. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 4 b, As if one should phantasy to praise a Gose before any other beast. 1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vii. xxxiiii. 150 Death, late feared, now she fantaseth. 1641 W. Prynne Antipathie 79 That he [the King] should neither phantacy nor regard the serious Petition of the importunate Commons. absol.1560 T. Becon Treat. Fasting xi, in Wks. ii. 89 b, Nether do they direct their fastes vnto any godly end, but as euery one fantasieth, so do they fast. 4. intr. To play fantasias; to extemporize. rare (but often in Carlyle). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > improvise or extemporize extemporize1775 improvise1788 impromptu1802 fantasy1840 fake1895 ad-lib1910 busk1934 jam1935 noodle1937 1840 T. Carlyle Wks. (1858) II. 323 He [Hoffmann] could fantasy to admiration on the harpsichord. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. vi. 650 Fantasying on the flute in an animated strain. Derivatives ˈfantasying n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > indulgence in imaginationa1393 dreaminga1400 fantasying1552 fantasy1553 fancy1581 think-so1666 ideology1813 fantasticating1880 fantastication- 1552 R. Record Ground of Artes (rev. ed.) ii. sig. Y.ij, You shuld..not haue taken a question of your own fantasieng. 1554 L. Saunders Let. 17 Oct. in Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 184 The fantasing of the flesh pottes of Egypte. 1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist ii. ix. 135 We are charged with a Corinthian fantasying of mens persons. 1932 Q. D. Leavis Fiction & Reading Public i. iii. 54 A habit of fantasying will lead to maladjustment in actual life. 1960 I. Bennett Delinquent & Neurotic Children iii. 69 ‘Bouts’ of lying and fantasying to get other boys into trouble. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2014). < n.c1325v.c1430
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