单词 | phantasmagorial |
释义 | phantasmagorialadj. Phantasmagoric. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > deceptive fancy or illusion > [adjective] > phantasmagoria phantasmagoric1813 phantasmagorial1822 phantasmagoriacal1823 phantasmagorian1827 phantasmagorical1828 1822 [see phantasmagorially adv. at Derivatives]. 1823 J. Galt Entail II. xxxiv. 326 After a terrible burst of whirlwinds, and thunder and lightning, the cloud again opened, and he saw in its phantasmagorial mirror—a calm and summer sunset. 1866 W. M. Thomas tr. V. Hugo Toilers of Sea I. v. i. 221 There was something phantasmagorial in these sudden disappearances. 1912 Mind 21 436 What they mean..by the word [sc. evolution] is a curious compound of this obsolete biological conception with the Hegelian concept- or pseudo-concept of a dialectical, timeless, and phantasmagorial serial arrangement of logical notions. 1952 19th-cent. Fiction 7 47 By means of darkness, dream, or distance, a crowd's individuals are blurred into a mass of kaleidoscopic forms that are neither real nor unreal, but phantasmagorial. 2003 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 24 Jan. c21 The works are..like off-kilter, phantasmagorial chamber music. Derivatives ˌphantasmaˈgorially adv. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > optical shows > [adverb] phantasmagorially1822 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 86 A thousand other scenes..come up phantasmagorially or panorama-wise before us. 1982 MLN 97 751 His ecstatic rhapsody..performs a surrealist ‘trapeze act’ of sorts, transmuting and transfiguring, phantasmagorially, the entire human condition. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1822 |
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