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Webster 1913 Edition


Fantasy

Fan′ta-sy

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Fantasies
(#)
.
[See
Fancy
.]
1.
Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.
Is not this something more than
fantasy
?
Shakespeare
A thousand
fantasies

Begin to throng into my memory.
Milton.
2.
Fantastic designs.
Embroidered with
fantasies
and flourishes of gold thread.
Hawthorne.

Fan′ta-sy

,
Verb.
T.
To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.
[Obs.]
Cavendish.
Which he doth most
fantasy
.
Robynson (More’s Utopia).

Webster 1828 Edition


Fantasy

FAN'TASY

,
Noun.
Now written fancy, which see.
Is not this something more than fantasy?