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Definition of Phantasmic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phantasmic
Literary usage of Phantasmic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... actual persons and places, or may be symbolical, taking the form of phantasmic
lights, coffins, skeletons, shrouds and so forth. ..."
2. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"The self only exists, and all else, even other persons, are phantasmic projections
of it. On this basis Mai Stirner (Das Ich und sein Eigenthum) bases his ..."
3. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1887)
"... the divine unity and the resurrection of the dead were denied; Jesus had only
a phantasmic body; and Lucifer was expected finally to reign. ..."
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