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单词 phantasmagorial
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phantasmagorialadj.

Brit. /ˌfantazməˈɡɔːrɪəl/, /fanˌtazməˈɡɔːrɪəl/, U.S. /fænˌtæzməˈɡɔriəl/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: phantasmagoria n., -al suffix1.
Etymology: < phantasmagoria n. + -al suffix1; compare -ial suffix. Compare earlier phantasmagoric adj.
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).
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