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Definition of Phantasmal

1. Adjective. Resembling or characteristic of a phantom. "Spiritual tappings at a seance"

Definition of Phantasmal

1. a. Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a phantasm; spectral; illusive.

Definition of Phantasmal

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to ghosts or phantoms. ¹

2. Adjective. Eerie or frightening. ¹

3. Adjective. Expresses qualities of or produced from fantasy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Phantasmal

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phantasmal

Literary usage of Phantasmal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. One in the Infinite by George Francis Savage-Armstrong (1891)
"phantasmal LIFE. i. AT night 'mid throes of suffering Who knows not how, in will's despite, Some Spectre to the brain will cling, Abide, and haunt the ..."

2. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers, Leopold Hamilton Myers (1907)
"The other phantasmal appearance of Canon Bourne chanced to affect only one percipient, but was of precisely the same character; and of course adds, ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"The garments it carries, the objects it holds in its hand, are phantasmal images borrowed from its former wardrobe or its former utensils. ..."

4. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"Christ he neither, like Marcion, affirms to have been in a phantasmal shape, nor yet in substance of a true body, as the Gospel teaches; but says, ..."

5. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"If it can get at phantasmal percepts outside the organism, ... (4) One may see phantasmal pictures from a point apparently remote from one's body. ..."

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