Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A phantasm.
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- noun A phantasm.
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- noun Alternative form of
phantasm .
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- noun a ghostly appearing figure
- noun something existing in perception only
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In any case, it is abundantly clear that, in many even if not all cases, Aristotele uses "phantasma" to refer to what we now call a mental image.
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"Shakespeare seems to use it ( 'phantasma') in this passage in the sense of nightmare, which it bears in Italian."
The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar William Shakespeare 1590
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So hour after hour passed, through which, between vain attempts to sleep, I managed to wade through many pages of Rosny's Le Termite -- a not very cheerful proceeding, I must say, concerned as it is with the microscopic and over-elaborate recital of Noel Servaise's tortured nerves, bodily pains, and intellectual phantasma.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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However, Aristotle's use of phantasma seems to collapse this distinction.
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Aristotle's Greek word, that is commonly and traditionally translated as "[mental] image" is “phantasma”
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Very arguably, Aristotle's views about imagery (phantasmata) cannot be fully understood in isolation from his views about imagination (phantasia), which he defined as “(apart from any metaphorical sense of the word) the process by which we say that an image [phantasma] is presented to us” (De Anima 428a 1-4).
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Christianity; the phantasma, the shade (not the soul) of tile dead.
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A garland of betony worn at night was a specific against phantasma or delusions and a head poultice of crushed teasel a spiky plant with hooked spines would relieve the symptoms of the frenzy.20 Another popular belief was that a rosted Mous, eaten, doth heale Franticke persons.21
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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A garland of betony worn at night was a specific against phantasma or delusions and a head poultice of crushed teasel a spiky plant with hooked spines would relieve the symptoms of the frenzy.20 Another popular belief was that a rosted Mous, eaten, doth heale Franticke persons.21
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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A garland of betony worn at night was a specific against phantasma or delusions and a head poultice of crushed teasel a spiky plant with hooked spines would relieve the symptoms of the frenzy.20 Another popular belief was that a rosted Mous, eaten, doth heale Franticke persons.21
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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