fantasm

The ETI has some connection to science, and is not quite the fantasm we see with angels, demons and for that matter God.

Be vewwwwy vewwwwy quiet…. Julianne 2008

I frowned, trying to picture such a fantasm as an abandoned building in TunFaire.

Angry Lead Skies Cook, Glen 2002

And it was not just a fantasm, not just a crotchet.

Anywhen Blish, James 1970

And I marveled that I now loved thee, and no fantasm in thy stead, and yet I was not stable enough to enjoy my God steadily.

Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

If I tried to cast off my burden on this fantasm, that it might find rest there, it sank through the vacuum and came rushing down again upon me.

Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

This I knew, but I was neither willing nor able to do; especially since, in my thoughts of thee, thou wast not thyself but only an empty fantasm.

Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

Walda-Qeb ( "Sons of Unction", as they are nowadays called), hold that the most radical unification (tawahedo) exists between the two natures, such being the absorption of the human by the Divine nature that the former may be said to be merely a fantasm.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

St. Cyprian tells of a good man who in his agony of death saw a fantasm of a noble and angelical shape, who, frowning and angry, said to him: "Ye can not endure sickness, ye are troubled at the evils of the world, and yet you are loath to die and to be quit of them; what shall I do to you?"

The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South Grenville Kleiser 1910

Later still, they found a little water poured in a basin or held in the hollow of the hand showed as true a fantasm.

The Thing from the Lake 1903

Kitaro is drawn into an intrigue which is seeing young women disappear courtesy of an unhappy spirit and embarks on a mission to either exorcise or becalm this miserable fantasm.

DVD Times 2010