fan tass in (fantasin)

[F., There were quaint fanta ins with matchlock, musket, tulwar, and bow. W. H. Ru ell, Diary in India, II. 237. fantast (fan'tast), n. [= G. Dan. Sw. fantast; fantast-ic.] One whose mind is full of fantastic notions; a person of fantastic ideas, manners, or mode of expre ion. Are not we both mad? And is not this a fantastic house we are in, And all a dream we do? Fletcher, Rule a Wife, iv. 3. IMG:content-1082.jpg:[graphic] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary IMG:content-1084.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1085.png:[blocks in formation] Nothing could well be more picturesque than this garden view of the city ramparts, lifting their fantastic battlements above the trees and flowers. H. James, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 207. 5. Controlled by fantasy; indulging the vagaries of imagination; capricious: as, fantas tic minds; a fantastic mistre . Every friend whom not thy fantastic will, but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., p. 267. =Syn. Grotesque, etc. (see fanciful ); odd, queer, strange, freakish, quaint. II. n. One who acts fantastically or ridiculously; a grotesque. Sometimes used in the plural of a company of persons grotesquely dre ed, and acting or parading in a ludicrous way, for amusement. Alas, the poor fantastic ! B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, iv. 1. Not like our fantastics , who, having a fine watch, take all occasions to draw it out to be seen. Fuller, Holy State, p. 245. fantastical (fan-tas'ti-kal), a. [ fantastic + -al .] Same as fantastic . Some fool is he and fantastic all per sonnes haue wrytten. Hall, Henry IV., an. 6. Fantastical or chimerical I call such [ideas] as have no foundation in nature, nor have any conformity with that reality of being to which they are tacitly referred as to their archetypes. Locke , Human Understanding, II. xxx. 1. fantasticality (fan-tas-ti-kal'i-ti), n.; pl. fan tas tical i ties (-tiz). [ fantastical + -ity.] 1. Fantasticalne . Which in mocking sort described unto Fido the fantas ticallity of each man's apparell, and apishne e of gesture. The Man in the Moon, 1609. 2. Something fantastic. Plants that do not look like real plants, but like idealizations of plants, like the fantasticalities of wood-carvers and stone-cutters animated by witchcraft. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 617. fantastically (fan-tas'ti-kal-i), adv . In a fantastic manner; capriciously; whimsically. Her sceptre so fantastically borne. Shak ., Hen. V., ii. 4. He dre es the ape fantastically , usually as a bride, or a veiled woman. E. W. Lane , Modern Egyptians, II. 110. fantasticalne (fan-tas'ti-kal-nes), n. The state of being fantastic; humorousne ; whimsicalne ; unreasonablene ; caprice. Not that I dare a ume to myself to have put him out of conceit with it by having convinced him of the fantas ticalne of it. Til lots on , Works, Pref. This wild tradition had the effect to give him a sense of the fantasticalne of his present pursuit. Hawthorne, Septimius Felton, p. 121.