Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
phantasmal .
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- adjective Like a
phantasm ;ghostly ,unreal .
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Examples
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When the poet tells us that, upon Napoleon's defeating the sections around the Convention, "the hour had come and the Man," and that the thing called the French Revolution was thereby "blown into space," nothing more silly, mendacious, and "phantasmic" was ever stated by sober historian.
Studies in Early Victorian Literature Frederic Harrison 1877
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Coleridge's Ancient Mariner is haunted by sounds so alien that even the word sound becomes phantasmic:
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Knudson did not know the molecular identity of his phantasmic anti-oncogenes.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Their phantasmic vocals and arrangements reel you in on their spectral riptide.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 150 Phil Ramone 2010
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Their phantasmic vocals and arrangements reel you in on their spectral riptide.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 150 Phil Ramone 2010
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Knudson did not know the molecular identity of his phantasmic anti-oncogenes.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Their phantasmic vocals and arrangements reel you in on their spectral riptide.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 150 Phil Ramone 2010
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Knudson did not know the molecular identity of his phantasmic anti-oncogenes.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Under the frighteningly phantasmic protective excusability of a planetary-sized black umbrella of ghastly and nightmarish, but inescapably real, memories of a mad horror in Europe, the violent Zionist conquerers of Palestine are allowed to go forward in grisly payback.
Condemn "International Community" Acquiescence During The Slaughter of Children 2009
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Obama lust does embody some phantasmic longing for a better world-more peaceful, egalitarian, and humane.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Would You Like Change With That? An Analysis of Obamamania 2008
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